How to get visible/Viewable area of User control(C#)?

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I have a control whose parent is a scroll-able control. How to find the part of the control that's actually visible to the user? See the following screen shots.


Fig.1 Before Resize - Picture box surrounded by red rectangle is the complete control

After re-sizing of parent form till the part of picture box is invisible(See below screen shot, we have to find out the visible area(user can see) of picture box.
Fig.2 - After resize - Part of picture box went inside of scrollable control

So How do i find the visible part of the control(here it is Picture box) ?
After spending a whole day finally able to get the solution to for this as follows,


        private void btnGetVisibleArea_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Rectangle rect = GetVisibleRectangle(pictureBox1);

            MessageBox.Show(rect.ToString(), "Visible Area");
        }

        private Rectangle GetVisibleRectangle(Control c)
        {   
            Rectangle rect = c.RectangleToScreen(c.ClientRectangle);
            while (c != null)
            {
                rect = Rectangle.Intersect(rect, c.RectangleToScreen(c.ClientRectangle));
                c = c.Parent;
            }
            rect = pictureBox1.RectangleToClient(rect);
            return rect;
        }
That's it, we are done!

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Comments

  1. Anonymous3/19/2014

    Thank you so much for this. I am making a 2D Game Engine with Tiles and this is what I used to only Render the tiles that are currently visible (around 1560 at a time instead of 250,000 like I would have been doing normally)

    Again, Thank you!

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  3. isabella5/06/2017

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