Why wouldnt my panel paint?

[Winston]

hey guys in app i use the following code to paint a panel

 

 

 

Dim g As Graphics = e.Graphics
               Dim tempRect As Rectangle = New Rectangle(0, 0, PANEL.Width, PANEL.Height)
               Dim tempBrush As System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientBrush = _
               New System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientBrush(tempRect, COLOR1, COLOR2, System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientMode.Horizontal)
               g.FillRectangle(tempBrush, tempRect)

 

 

but wen i added a panel to my splash form it just doesnt paint

 

any ideas why?...

 

[edit]That code is not PHP...[/edit]

Edited April 4, 2003 by Squirm

[divil]

Is this code in the Paint event of the panel?

[Winston]

yeah it is

 

i dun even know why theres a problem

 

the splash forms border style is set to none

 

and its not shown in the taskbar

 

it center screen

 

loaded on intiilize part of the frm main

[divil]

Are you giving it a chance to paint itself? How is it displaying at the moment?

[Winston]

wat do u mean am i giving it a chance, it paints, and well its displayed in frmmain region code

 

initilise bit

 

using a system.threading.thead.sleep to close the form when its done..

[Volte]

Your code works just fine for me. Try putting a MessageBox.Show("test')

inside the Paint event just to ensure that it is actually firing. Perhaps

the event is hooked up incorrectly.

[divil]

If you're showing the form, and using Thread.Sleep to wait, then hiding the form again it will never get a chance to paint itself. Try calling Application.DoEvents() just before you make it sleep.

[Winston]

hey divil it worked thanks!!!