InvalidateRect custom-drawn trackbar

I want to redraw a custom-drawn trackbar.
I've tried InvalidateRect, UpdateWindow, and RedrawWindow.
The only thing that works is EnableWindow FALSE, EnableWindow TRUE.
What can I change to make InvalidateRect to work?
Thanks

Code:

// window flags
tmbColor=gray; chColor=gray;
slider = CreateWindow(TRACKBAR_CLASS, NULL, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | TBS_VERT | TBS_NOTICKS, x1,y1,x2,y2, hWnd, (HMENU)ID_SLIDE, hInst, NULL);

// I want to redraw it with new colors
tmbColor=blue; chColor=blue;
InvalidateRect(slider, NULL, FALSE);

// NM_CUSTOMDRAW
case CDDS_PREPAINT:
	return CDRF_NOTIFYITEMDRAW | CDRF_NOTIFYPOSTPAINT;
case CDDS_PREERASE:
case CDDS_POSTERASE:
case CDDS_ITEMPREERASE:
case CDDS_ITEMPOSTERASE:
	return CDRF_DODEFAULT;
case CDDS_ITEMPREPAINT:
	switch(itemSpec)
	{
	case TBCD_CHANNEL:
		return CDRF_DODEFAULT | CDRF_NOTIFYPOSTPAINT;
	case TBCD_THUMB:
		/* code to draw thumb with tmbColor */
		return CDRF_SKIPDEFAULT;
	}
	break;
case CDDS_ITEMPOSTPAINT:
	switch(itemSpec)
	{
	case TBCD_CHANNEL:
		/* code to draw channel with chColor */
		return CDRF_SKIPDEFAULT;
	case TBCD_THUMB:
		return CDRF_SKIPDEFAULT;
	}
	break;
case CDDS_POSTPAINT:
	return CDRF_DODEFAULT;
}

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Is this any help?

Customizing the Appearance of CSliderCtrl Using Custom Draw - CodeProject®

Amazingly, you found the example I used to begin with.
I decided to go back through it though and see if I might discover anything.
Nope.
Oh well.
For now, I will just do the EnableWindow trick.
Thanks for trying.

Have you tried setting the last param of InvalidateRect() to TRUE? (so the background of the window is redrawn, not just the client area)

Also always follow an InvalidateRect() with an UpdateWindow() (so the paint msg bypasses the OS msg queue and is posted directly to the window's callback).

This is because WM_PAINT is the lowest priority msg in the queue and the only msg that can be pre-processed while in the OS queue (all paints in the queue are concatinated into the smallest possible redraw region and dropped back into the queue).

Oh well.
That didn't work either.
What's weird is that when color=newcolor (nothing changes) and I hover over the thumb, then the thumb instantly changes to the new color, but not the track. But then if I click on another program's button in the taskbar and then the button back to my program to cause it to repaint, the track has the new color too.

I guess I just need to add code at ever 'case' to log all the steps this thing flows through.
I'll do that later, when I have some extra time.

I did some 'case' logging and InvalidateRect does nothing, so I went back to Google:
Custom draw trackbar

I've obviously somehow already read this I think. I don't remember.
I am refactoring my code and ran across the EnableWindow trick and thought, what the heck.
Wow, this is a good example of how comments would have saved time and headaches - man.

Sorry I wasted your time.