Wm_paint

When the window is moved, resized, obstructed by another window, etc... windows will send your application a WM_PAINT message in order for you to redraw the invalid region.

case WM_PAINT:
{
// hdc = BeginPaint(hwnd, &paintstruct);
// EndPaint(hwnd);
} break;

For a test, I commented the lines of code out to see what would happen. When I ran my simple program (It just displays a blank window.), I could still resize, move, etc.. and it still redrew the window. Why is this? Does windows do something I'm not aware of? Please help!

Thanks,
Codah

I'll give yah a hint: You don't een have to trap a WM_PAINT. Unless you keep windows from doing so somehow, it will always repaint the window.

So you would only use WM_PAINT if you wanted to do some specific drawing tasks? In other words, windows will always do the basic drawing job?

Windows will redraw ctrls and dlg's as long as they are not 'ownerdraw'. Other drawing must be handled. Anything in a HDC must be 'ownerdrawn'.

In between beginpaint() and endpaint() you put the code you want executed when repainting.

BeginPaint() only validates a region that has had paint called on it with InvalidateRect, UpdateWindow ect.

EndPaint cleans up.