"lsilvand"  wrote in message
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> What is the point of the point method then? I can understand that you
> can't read outside your viewable picture box, but how can you now it
> is always visible? You would have to make it always on top and
> impossible to minimize...not a good behaviour of any program. So why
> can't this braindead method realize that it is connected to a picture
> box and figure out that that is where it's supposed to get its data
> from? Or is there another method to read the pixel values?
>
>

If you set the picturebox AutoRedraw property to True, the point method
will return the pixel value of a "would be visible" pixel, even if the
form is covered with another form.
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