redraw after minimize

I am making a simple drawing program using GDI and Win32 API. It lets user to draw shapes, text etc on Window. Problem is, when window is minimized, everything that was drawn is gone. I have searched google and msdn but I had no luck. If I could save whatever that is drawn in the memory somewhere before window is minimized and then restore it later ... but I am not being able to do so. Can someone tell me how to do it? Thanks!

How many things (like WM_PAINT) does your program deal with?

There are more events which happen when you do what you describe.

Hmmm.. If you're asking whether or not it deals with WM_PAINT. Nope it doesn't. I know after window is minimized WM_PAINT message is sent. If I knew which messege is sent before window is minimized and background is erased, I could created a new HBITMAP and HDC and use BitBlt to copy whatever that was drawn on the Window to HBITMAP and then in WM_PAINT, I could again use BitBlt to copy it back to Window.

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Originally Posted by Prads

Hmmm.. If you're asking whether or not it deals with WM_PAINT. Nope it doesn't. I know after window is minimized WM_PAINT message is sent. If I knew which messege is sent before window is minimized and background is erased, I could created a new HBITMAP and HDC and use BitBlt to copy whatever that was drawn on the Window to HBITMAP and then in WM_PAINT, I could again use BitBlt to copy it back to Window.

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Handling WM_PAINT is the only way any app should ever be drawing the window contents. If you have trouble doing that, then by all means let us know and we'll help you out.

Don't even think about figuring out some other workaround just to make it work the way you have it. It's wrong.

Oh! I'll post some of my code. I have a draw class which has a virtual function called drawFunc(HWND hwnd) which basically draws the object on Window. There are three base class:

Code:

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class drawSPen: public drawClass {
public:
        void drawFunc(HWND hwnd);
};

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Code:

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class drawSEllipse: public drawClass {
public:
        void drawFunc(HWND hwnd);
};

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And

Code:

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class drawSText: public drawClass {
public:
        void drawFunc(HWND hwnd);
};

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When User selects pen, here's how the program draws it on window:

First the mouse position is kept in POINT variable when mouse left button is down:

Code:

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case WM_LBUTTONDOWN:
                        if (!ConvBitmap) {
                                LPos.x = LOWORD(lParam);
                                LPos.y = HIWORD(lParam);
                        }
                        break;

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ConvBitmap is a bool variable which tells whether the user has selected drawing mode or the bitmap mode. When user selects bitmap mode, user won't be able to draw on window.

Now when user moves the mouse, drawing happens like this:

Code:

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case WM_MOUSEMOVE:
                if (!ConvBitmap) {
                        if (wParam == MK_LBUTTON && drawWhat == DRAW_SPEN) {
                                CPos.x = LOWORD(lParam);
                                CPos.y = HIWORD(lParam);
                                PenLine.drawFunc(hwnd);
                        }
                }
                break;

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drawWhat is global unsigned short int variable. And the value of DRAW_SPEN is defined in resource.h file. CPos is POINT variable to store current mouse coordinates. And PenLine.drawFunc(hwnd) calls the drawFunc(hwnd) from drawSPen class.

Code:

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void drawSPen::drawFunc(HWND hwnd) {
        HPEN CPen = CreatePen(PS_SOLID, PenSize, PenColor);
       
        hdc = GetDC(hwnd);
        SelectObject(hdc, CPen);
       
        MoveToEx(hdc, LPos.x, LPos.y, NULL);
        LineTo(hdc, CPos.x, CPos.y);
        LPos = CPos;
       
        SelectObject(hdc, DefPen);
        DeleteObject(CPen);
        ReleaseDC(hwnd, hdc);
}

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This is how my program draws stuff on the window and I don't know if this is the right or the wrong way.

Try a search here for 'double buffering' etc, this comes up quite often.

This is MFC but demonstrates the main idea.

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/windo...tml#post928461

Thanks. I finally got double buffering to work. I need to rest now, my eyes are swelling due to lack of rest and being too much infront of computer. Haha I will rewrite the drawing code and post them here after I get some rest.
Thanks!