<function name="Paint" parent="PANEL" type="hook"> <description> Called whenever the panel should be drawn. ⤶ You can create panels with a customized appearance by overriding their Paint() function, which will prevent the default appearance from being drawn. ⤶ <note>Render operations from the <page>surface</page> (and consequentially the <page>draw</page>) are always offset by the global position of this panel, as seen in the example below</note>⤶ ⤶ <note>This hook will not run if the panel is completely off the screen. The hook will still run however if any parts of the panel are still on screen.</note>⤶ </description>⤶ <realm>Client</realm>⤶ ⤶ This hook will not run if the panel is completely off the screen, and will still run if any parts of the panel are still on screen. ⤶ You can create panels with a customized appearance by overriding their `Paint()` function, which will prevent the default appearance from being drawn.⤶ ⤶ See also <page>PANEL:PaintOver</page>.⤶ ⤶ <note>Render operations from the <page>surface</page> library (and consequentially the <page>draw</page> library) are always offset by the global position of this panel, as seen in the example below</note>⤶ ⤶ </description>⤶ <realm>Client and Menu</realm>⤶ <args> <arg name="width" type="number">The panel's width.</arg> <arg name="height" type="number">The panel's height.</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="boolean">Returning true prevents the background from being drawn.</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Creates a DPanel and overrides its Paint() function to draw a 100x100 pixel black rounded box in the center of the screen.</description> <code> local panel = vgui.Create( "DPanel" ) panel:SetSize( 100, 100 ) panel:SetPos( ScrW() / 2 - 50, ScrH() / 2 - 50 ) function panel:Paint( w, h ) draw.RoundedBox( 8, 0, 0, w, h, Color( 0, 0, 0 ) ) end </code> </example>