It is unlikely that the graphics creation and disposal would cost you any noticeable amount of time, especially compared to everything else that is going on. It's a lot cleaner to just create and dispose the graphics around the rendering portion of the method than to try to manage a cached copy. [Message sent by forum member 'flar' (flar)]
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