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Form deletes painted picture, and getfocus problem

Hi,

I have an application with MDI form, and a few child forms. I have a form "frmPicturePreview", in which I can call another form: "frmAddText" to add text to the picture preview form. The picture is being painted into frmPicturePreview with the paintPicture method. The problem is that when I call the frmAddText, it behaves like an erasure, in a way that if it's over the frmPicturePreview it erases the picture. Weird, huh? Does anyone know about this problem (bug?) and how to fix it?

My other problem is the "GetFocus" method. It looks like just clicking the form title doesn't fire this method. Or even clicking on the form itself. How can I know if the form is the active one? I tried to use MDIForm1.ActiveForm, but it kept telling me that I have an error.

Thanks a lot!

PaulHews

Windows applications only repaint when it is necessary (when they are minimized and restored or when they are covered by another window.) When you are drawing on a form using paintpicture, your application doesn't know it has to maintain that drawing if the form needs to be repainted. There are two ways to fix this.

in form load:

frmPicturePreview.AutoRedraw = True

or in the Paint event for your form, put in a call to the code that does the paintpicture.

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Thank you very much, I requested to split the points between two of you.

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