Why does text drawn on a panel disappear?

Question

I\'m trying to draw a text on a panel(The panel has a background picture).

It works brilliant,but when I minimize and then maximize the application the text is gone.

Answer 1

If you don't use a Paint event, you are just drawing on the screen where the control happens to be. The control is not aware of this, so it has no idea that you intended for the text to stay there...

If you put the value that you want drawn on the panel in it's Tag property, you can use the same paint event handler for all the panels.

Also, you need to dispose of the Font object properly, or you will be having a lot of them waiting to be finalized before they return their resources to the system.

private void panel1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) {
   Control c = sender as Control;
   using (Font f = new Font("Tahoma", 5)) {
      e.Graphics.DrawString(c.Tag.ToString(), f, Brushes.White, new PointF(1, 1));
   }
}