Picture instead of PictureBox

[Gepeto]

Hello. I'd like to put health bar, buttons and other elements ON game screen, not UNDER. So I've asked here and patient Alatar and John ♥ Ponies (big thanks to them) have helped me. But still, I have small problem.

I've put elemnts into PictureBox and added picture for this PB. But:

1/ Picture appears only AFTER CLICK on it, I want to make it looking like the picture I've made WITHOUT CLICK REQUIRED.

2/ Also, when picture appears, it have still grey frame of original PB.

Could somebody help me, please?

[Stein]

You could also use D3D7 to render it on-screen and be rid of the whole GDI rendered parts on your form. It usually ends up looking weird or flashing if you don't.

[Gepeto]

D3D7?

[Stein]

Ah, well to put it simple the way tiles are rendered to the screen. Technically if you were to render an "empty" bar to the screen, and on top of that a "full" one sized to the proper scale with rendered text on it it'll work fine on your screen, and never cause any issues nor block players from clicking under your health/spirit bar.

[Gepeto]

I apologize, I have horrible english, please wait until I'll try to understand it. I'm really so sorry.

[Gepeto]

So, you're hinting me to cut and put bars onto SCREEN not PICTURE BOX? I apologize if I've understood it wrong…

EDIT: Okay, I've it done... I thank you very much... It works  :cheesy: