Shadows Me.Paint (Button)

[Bryan Brannon]

I am extending one of your button controls to have more properties and am including the following code to "Shadow" the Paint event to further draw a string below the main string.  This works but would like to know if there is a better way of doing this, because when i change the text or hide and show the button, the text messes up during paint until it gets focus causing it to re-paint.  Here is what the buttons looks like painted:

buttons.gif

and here is my code in my extended class:

	Private Shadows Sub ExtendedPaint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles Me.Paint
	If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(Me._alt_text) Then  '_alt_text (string property)
	Dim f1 As Font = New Font("Arial", 8.0F, FontStyle.Bold)
	Dim sf As New StringFormat()
	Dim brush As System.Drawing.Brush = New SolidBrush(Me._alt_text_color)
	Dim rect As Rectangle = New Rectangle(e.ClipRectangle.X, e.ClipRectangle.Y, e.ClipRectangle.Width, e.ClipRectangle.Height - 7)
	sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center
	sf.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Far
	e.Graphics.DrawString(Me._alt_text, f1, brush, rect, sf)
	brush.Dispose()
	sf.Dispose()
	f1.Dispose()
	End If
	End Sub

Any thoughts for improvement or somewhere that might be more efficient?

[Jordan]

Hello Bryan,

You could consider invalidating the button (by calling the Invalidate method) when the alternate text is set to a different value.

Kind regards,
Jordan
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