Question

I have 2 pictureboxes on a panel at two separate locations which will become Hidden after a certain time. I would like to paint the pictureboxes background image to the panel at the exact points in which the picturebox controls lay. I have looked at the MSDN library but I cannot seem to find out how to do this.

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

You can do something similar to this:

Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(panel1.Size.Width, panel1.Size.Height);
using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap))
{
    g.DrawImage(pictureBox1.BackgroundImage, new Rectangle(pictureBox1.Location, pictureBox1.Size));
    g.DrawImage(pictureBox2.BackgroundImage, new Rectangle(pictureBox2.Location, pictureBox2.Size));
    g.Flush();
}

pictureBox1.Visible = false;
pictureBox2.Visible = false;
panel1.BackgroundImage = bitmap;

Or you can try using this:

public class PanelEx : Panel
{
    public PictureBox PictureBox1 { get; set; }
    public PictureBox PictureBox2 { get; set; }
    public bool IsBackgroundDrawn { get; set; }

    protected override void OnPaintBackground(PaintEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!IsBackgroundDrawn)
        {
            IsBackgroundDrawn = true;
            base.OnPaintBackground(e);
        }
    }

    protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnPaint(e);
        if (PictureBox1 != null && PictureBox2 != null && !IsBackgroundDrawn)
        {
            Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(this.Size.Width, this.Size.Height);
            e.Graphics.DrawImage(PictureBox1.BackgroundImage, new Rectangle(PictureBox1.Location, PictureBox1.Size));
            e.Graphics.DrawImage(PictureBox2.BackgroundImage, new Rectangle(PictureBox2.Location, PictureBox2.Size));
            e.Graphics.Flush();

            PictureBox1.Visible = false;
            PictureBox2.Visible = false;
            this.BackgroundImage = bitmap;
            IsBackgroundDrawn = false;
        }
    }
}