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Arash
Arash

Reputation: 3051

Background Image Doesnt Show When Right To Left Is True

In Windows Form When 

RightToLeft=yes

and 

RightToLeftLayout=true

i can not

set any background image for my form!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1438

Answers (3)

tmighty
tmighty

Reputation: 11399

According to Prshanth's answer, you need to handle the background painting yourself.

Microsoft wasn't lazy, they simply didn't know what you want to be happening when the reading layout of the form is changed. Perhaps you want your background image to be flipped? They just don't know, so instead of doing something wrong, they did nothing.

The good thing is that you can simply do it yourself like this. In this example, I simply store the desired background image in a PictureBox and then paint it onto the form when the Form.Paint event occurs:

Private Sub Form1_Paint(sender As Object, e As PaintEventArgs) Handles Me.Paint

    Dim r As Rectangle = Me.ClientRectangle
    e.Graphics.DrawImage(Me.PictureBox1.BackgroundImage, r)

End Sub

Upvotes: 2

elham
elham

Reputation: 11

add a PictureBox and dock it to fill the form and you’ll get a background

Upvotes: 1

Prashanth Thurairatnam
Prashanth Thurairatnam

Reputation: 4361

From the MSDN entry for the Form.RightToLeftLayout property:

Owner draw is not supported when RightToLeftLayout is set to Yes. The owner draw events will still occur, but the behavior of any code you author in these events is not defined. Additionally, BackgroundImage, Opacity, TransparencyKey, and the painting events are not supported.

Upvotes: 3

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