Thanks, I was trying to come up with some sort of sensible code from searching the internet, but nothing seemed to work for me. Basically, I'm working off of what little I know from C# and the small amount of information I can get from my professor after class. It obviously wasn't working well for me. This is part of a project for school, but my book has absolutely nothing on managed c++. I would take the time to learn C++/cli, but this project is due at the end of the semester, and I have so many other things I'm reading now for classes/personal study/entertainment. I'll get to it eventually, but I have a lot of other things I'm doing now.

Thanks, I'm so new at C++, I wasn't sure which forum to ask in.

Thanks, setting the KeyPreview to true worked perfectly for me.

Thank you so much. changing it to e.Graphics fixed everything. Also, it went from extreme flicker (practically disappearing for a full second or two) to incredibly minor flicker at a 10ms interval.