Hi,

    I am using Graphics.DrawString in the paint handler of a label.
The text comes up and behaves as expected on all events such as resize of
the lable control.

The problem is when i move a messagebox/ another application( say notepad )
across the lable.

In this case a clean repaint of the text fails to appear. The text gets
drawn erratically or altogether disappears.

What could i be missing out on in this code.

I tried inheriting from System.Windows.Forms.Label and overriding the
onpaint method with same results. I had also tried

having the usercontrol as UserControlStyles.UserPaint.

I was trying to avoid having to create the Graphics object for the lable in
the main form as this is not advisable; but i

tried that also with even worse results.

Any help to get me have the paint handler working properly would be greatly
appreciated.

Regards,

//code snippet
        private void lblMessage_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
        {
            if( lblMessage.Text != "" )
                lblMessage.Text = "";
            Graphics g = e.Graphics;// Graphics.FromHwnd( this.Handle );

            //g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;

               
            StringFormat sf = new StringFormat();
            sf.Trimming = StringTrimming.EllipsisCharacter;
            sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center;
            sf.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center;
            sf.FormatFlags = StringFormatFlags.LineLimit |
                StringFormatFlags.FitBlackBox |
                StringFormatFlags.NoClip
                ;

            g.DrawString (
                strText,
                this.Font,
                Brushes.Black,
                new RectangleF(
                g.VisibleClipBounds.Location,
                g.VisibleClipBounds.Size),
                sf );

        }