draw a rectangle in C#

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Hello . I have a rectangle like this one in my my pictureBox
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I used this code to generate this rectangle:

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Graphics g = pictureBox1.CreateGraphics();
Pen selPen = new Pen(Color.Blue);
g.DrawRectangle(selPen, 50, 50, 10, 50);
g.Dispose();

My goal is to color just 50% of this rectangle and make it look like this:

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So 50% will be colored in the default color and the other part will be colored in an other color.

I really don`t know how can I do this and I need your help.
Thank you for your replay in advance.

Posted 23-Jan-12 6:23am

Radu_Socaciu

Updated 2-Sep-22 23:23pm

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Hi, im trying to draw a parallelogram, i have class of rectangle and i want that the parallelogram will use the function from rectangle to the parallelogram.
than you .

Posted 2-Sep-22 23:23pm

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Kats2512 3-Sep-22 9:06am

No one on this platform will be doing your homework for you!

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-23T06:55:00

Abusing PictureBox is a usual mistake. Of course you can draw on an instance of a System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox, but there are no situations when it can be useful. It can be useful to draw in an instance of System.Drawing.Image or an instance of any control class, usually derived from System.Windows.Forms.Control.

As to the PictureBox, it is designed to make it very simple to present pictures, one whole static picture at a time. An attempt to do anything dynamic, interactive or animated is just waste of extra resources and development time. It does not present any additional feature, only the hassles. Even your simple example would be an abuse. You can do it, but you never need it.

Not to worry, I'll explain what to do instead.

To draw on the instance of Image, obtain an instance of System.Drawing.Graphics using the static factory method System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(Image) and draw using Graphics, please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.graphics.fromimage.aspx[^].

In contrast, you should never create an instance of Graphics if you need to render graphics on screen, using any Control. Instead, you should obtain one from the event arguments parameter passed to the overridden method OnPaint or your event handler of the event Paint, please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.aspx[^].

Please find further detail on rendering on-screen graphics in my past solutions:
How do I clear a panel from old drawing[^],
What kind of playful method is Paint? (DataGridViewImageCell.Paint(...))[^],
Drawing Lines between mdi child forms[^],
capture the drawing on a panel[^].

—SA