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Re: Win32Lib: repaint screen on move 2nd window

• Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET> Sep 04, 2000
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Skoda,

My problem is in knowing how to *tell* it that it needs to be repainted,
that's what I can't figure out how to do.  I can't use "onClose" (or at
least I *think* I can't), because the windows aren't "mine", they are other
programs that my program has caused to run.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Skoda" <tone.skoda at SIOL.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: Win32Lib: repaint screen on move 2nd window


> Whatever you put in onPaint, it will be executed when window needs to
paint
> itself; if some other window covered it. You can even get the rectangle of
> window that needs to be repainted, if you don't want to repaint the whole
> window.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET>
> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 5:00 AM
> Subject: Win32Lib: repaint screen on move 2nd window
>
>
> > How can I make "new" windows not erase the contents of original windows
if
> > the "new" windows are moved or resized?
> >
> > In my "examples gateway" app, when an example is selected to run, its
> window
> > behaves somewhat badly with respect to the original window: if the
running
> > example is moved, it deletes the contents of the original window (& if
> it's
> > moved often enough quickly enough, it leaves copies of itself behind,
> until
> > they get erased about 12 seconds later).
> >
> > I looked at "repaintWindow(id)", but I can't figure out how/when to
*tell*
> > it to do so.
> >
> > Dan Moyer