Cannot override paint method

[James Ramaley]

I am trying to modify the way a NumericUpDown control draws itself. I
just need to hide the up/down arrows. I tried overriding both the
OnPaint method and the wm_paint message inside WndProc. Neither way
was successful. The overridden OnPaint method is not being called at
all. WndProc is being called but my changes have no effect, even
though I have successfully done a similar thing with ComboBox. Your
help will be greatly appreciated.

This is my test code. Here I try painting the whole control:

Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As Message)
MyBase.WndProc(m)
Select Case m.Msg
Case &HF
Dim g As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics
Dim r As Rectangle = Me.ClientRectangle
g.FillRectangle(ArrowBrush, r)
Case Else
Exit Select
End Select
End Sub

Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal e As PaintEventArgs)
MyBase.OnPaint(e)
Dim r As Rectangle = Me.ClientRectangle
e.Graphics.FillRectangle(ArrowBrush, r)
End Sub

thanks

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

You need to add the style userpaint to the control to for the paint
event to fire.

Public Sub New()

Me.SetStyle(ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer Or ControlStyles.UserPaint Or
ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, True)

End Sub

Ken

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"James Ramaley" <jr******@iname.com> wrote in message
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I am trying to modify the way a NumericUpDown control draws itself. I
just need to hide the up/down arrows. I tried overriding both the
OnPaint method and the wm_paint message inside WndProc. Neither way
was successful. The overridden OnPaint method is not being called at
all. WndProc is being called but my changes have no effect, even
though I have successfully done a similar thing with ComboBox. Your
help will be greatly appreciated.

This is my test code. Here I try painting the whole control:

Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As Message)
MyBase.WndProc(m)
Select Case m.Msg
Case &HF
Dim g As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics
Dim r As Rectangle = Me.ClientRectangle
g.FillRectangle(ArrowBrush, r)
Case Else
Exit Select
End Select
End Sub

Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal e As PaintEventArgs)
MyBase.OnPaint(e)
Dim r As Rectangle = Me.ClientRectangle
e.Graphics.FillRectangle(ArrowBrush, r)
End Sub

thanks