"Hadar" <crazy5@bezeqint.net> wrote in message
news:OB0b1UYbDHA.3444@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting "object is currently in use elsewhere" when I use
> System.Drawing.Graphics.MesureString.
>
> This is what I do:
> My controls use a utility class the helps it to mesure strings.
> To get the best performance for the utility class, its members, as well as
> the System.Drawing.Graphics object, are static:
>
> internal sealed class Utils
> {
> static System.Drawing.Bitmap oBmp;
> static System.Drawing.Graphics oGrf;
> ....
> ....
> }
>
>
> The members are initialized in the static constructor:
>
> static Utils()
> {
> oBmp = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(100, 150); //dummy numbers
> oGrf = new System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(oBmp);
> oGrf.PageUnit = System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Pixel;
> ....
> ....
> }
>
>
> In that way there is only one object for the controls.
> Every control calls this method one time when the control is loading:
>
> public static float CalcStringLength(string InText)
> {
> System.Drawing.SizeF oSizeF = oGrf.MesuereString(InText, oFontInfo);
> return oSizeF.Width;
> }
>
> The problem is that when 10 users try to activate 10 controls that call to
> CalcStringLength I get this error:
> "the object is currently in use elsewhere"
> I know this object is meant to be disposed but because it is static I have
> no idea when to dispose it...
>
> This didn't help either:
> public static float CalcStringLength(string InText)
> {
> try
> {
> System.Drawing.SizeF oSizeF = oGrf.MesuereString(InText,
oFontInfo);
> return oSizeF.Width;
> }
> catch
> {
> // restart the graphic object
> oGrf.Dispose;
> oGrf = System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(oBmp);
> return CalcStringLength(InText);
> }
> }
>
>
> Is there any way that I can work with the graphic object as static object
> without getting this error?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Hadar.
>
>
>