Is there a way to paint a permanant background onto a form?
Permanant meaning that the background would not have to be redrawn when
another window is moved in front of it.

I dont think so, or at least I have never heard or seen it...... but thats
no guarantee ;o)
The best choice is probably the brush, but it goes to a max of 8*8 bitmaps I
think..... pretty unusable anyway.

If you are worried about system performance, and needs to draw the
background yourself, you can allways kill the default Windows drawing, and
save some time....

Lars

I don't think so. Windows system can't recreate what itself has destryed, an
dthat's what happens when a form is moved in front of another form.

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As I understand it, even if the form is a standard form, the form surface
and all the controls are redrawn when covered by another window and then
uncovered.  If you want a 'permanent' background, you will have to use the
OnPaint event to make sure it is repainted when covered and then
uncovered.  I have used the OnPaint event of a PaintBox to refresh the
print preview of a data logging form, and it works pretty well

You could also put a TImage on the form, and set its Align property to
alClient.  Then set its Picture to the image you want. You may have to move
it to the back, but I think all the controls would be drawn on top of it
regardless.

Hope this helps,
Alan McIntyre
a...@norfolkgraphics.com
http://norfolkgraphics.com