Nice, thanks for sharing :) Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

Still, the issue is your program should have told you what was the problem, by testing return values on system calls that don't throw exceptions, and reporting exceptions when they occur, and not by dying silently. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles] I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets. I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).

It doesn't sound like you have much of a choice but to repaint everything except the portions you're removing. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008 But no longer in 2009...

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Hi, I don't see where the image's fileformat would be relevant, assuming you load the images into memory once (hence outside your drawing methods), which turns them into uncompressed bitmaps anyway, e.g. using Bitmap bm=Bitmap.FromFile(filepath); or something similar with FromSream. (example is C# syntax!). PS: I strongly object to your code swallowing exceptions; if you (think you) need a try-catch, then do something useful with the exception, e.g. display it's Exception.ToString(). [ADDED]And if there is a very specific exception that you rightfully want to ignore, add a catch for that specific exception and insert a comment as to why it is OK to ignore it; then leave the more general catch out, or put some code in it. [/ADDED] :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] DISCLAIMER: this message may have been modified by others; it may no longer reflect what I intended, and may contain bad advice; use at your own risk and with extreme care. modified on Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:44 AM

O.G.I. wrote: the moving objects I use are actually windows forms Yikes! I think that's the heaviest control you could have used. Truthfully, I wouldn't have used anything in the ToolBox, but instead went with either drawing everything myself, or gone with the XNA framework. O.G.I. wrote: I suspect that using windows forms as units in the playground field is a bad idea Yep - it is! O.G.I. wrote: You can try this by yourself I don't have to. I KNOW it's a really bad idea. Since you just created a small form, removing the borders and titlebar, along with just about everything else, you've essentially made a very heavy-weight Panel control. O.G.I. wrote: I thought to try C++ with DirectX, but I still don't have money to buy these products. I heard that DirectX is optimized for game programming. You don't need C++ and DirectX. And, BTW, the DirectX SDK is free and you can pickup the Visual C++ Express Edition for free, here[^]. If I were you, with little experience, I'd start with the XNA Game Studio[^]. It uses C#, but is not that hard to learn if you know VB.NET already. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008