I want a simple life bar be declared in a class outside form1 paint event.

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I want to make a Life bar.
I can make a basic one in Form1, no problem -see the code below.
But I want now to make a Class that is holding some properties for this Life bar, like value,position, size, color, isfull, ishalf, isalmostdead,is dead, but the most important, I want it to be drawn in a paint event too.
and in Form1_Paint to paint it from that Class... somehow.
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in pseudocode it should look like this:
private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
Class1.PaintLifeBar(); //and thats it!
//(or something similar) here i give you an idea how it should look.)
}
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It is possible?
If yes, how?

What I have tried:

private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
        {
            e.Graphics.FillRectangle(new SolidBrush(Color.LawnGreen), new Rectangle(10, 10, 55, 5));
        }

Posted 15-Mar-17 19:20pm

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Updated 15-Mar-17 21:18pm

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Ralf Meier · Answer 1 · 2017-03-15T21:18:00

At first :
if you have additional Information you should use the function "Improve Question" and add it at this Point ...

To your Question :
You only need to create a new class which derives from Control. Now you could create your own Control with own (or customized) Properties which could be used like (for example) a Button or a Label ...

VB

Public Class LifeBar
   inherits Control

' now put your Properties in here

' Override the Controls OnPaint-Method to do your painting
    Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(e As PaintEventArgs)
        ' here you could do your painting
        ' you can see, that the control gives you it's own PaintEventArgs with which you could work



        MyBase.OnPaint(e)
    End Sub

End Class