Thread: drawing to my window

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    Mmm. Purple.
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    drawing to my window

    i need to do some drawing functions outside of the WM_PAINT, in another thread acctualy, i tried passing the hwnd as a param to the thread then using GetDC but it seems to get the dc of the desktop because everything is being draw to the top left of the screen, even if my window is minimized or something

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    GetDC returns the screen DC if passed NULL as its argument. Therefore, review your code to make sure you are passing the hwnd to GetDC and not NULL.

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