[RESOLVED] Draw inside a frame

[krtxmrtz]

I have a frame with various option buttons whereby the user selects the drawing line style of a picturebox: PS_SOLID, PS_DASH, PS_DOT and so on. And I want to display a short line with the corresponding style next each button. Do I have to place tiny pictureboxes -and plot the lines on them- inside the frame or is there a preferable way?

[LaVolpe]

You can draw directly to the frame, but what you draw is not preserved if the window is minimized or another window is dragged over it. You get no Paint events for the frame either, so you don't know when to update what was erased by those types of actions; short of subclassing.

A picturebox is probably the best solution here. If you really wanted to draw on the frame, you can get its DC via the GetDC and/or GetWindowDC APIs, then use other APIs to draw to it or BitBlt to it.

[krtxmrtz]

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A picturebox is probably the best solution here...

A borderless picturebox with same background color as the frame works nicely, thanks.