Thread: Something to do with painting???

Perhaps the return value for WM_NCACTIVATE isn't proper. From MSDN:

"Return Value

When the wParam parameter is FALSE, an application should return TRUE to indicate that the system should proceed with the default processing, or it should return FALSE to prevent the title bar or icon from being deactivated. When wParam is TRUE, the return value is ignored."

If you are drawing on the non-client area part of a window, and it is being overwritten by Windows, then Windows does not know that it is NOT supposed to handle the default action for painting in the non-client area part of the window. This is probably a result of an improper return value. Please check the return values (all of them - for WM_NCPAINT, as well). You need to tell Windows that you have handled the message, and therefore the default processing need not be run.

Well after a bit of research and some work...I'm now subclassing the window and am using (sorry in advance for the bad formatting...):

Code:

LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProc(HWND hwnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam){ 

	HDC hDC;
	RECT rc1,rc2;
	int x,y;

	switch(uMsg){
   case WM_NCACTIVATE:
      if ((BOOL)wParam == FALSE)
      {
         DefWindowProc( hwnd, uMsg, wParam, lParam );
      // Add code here to draw caption when window is inactive.

         return TRUE;
      }
      // Fall through if wParam == TRUE, i.e., window is active.

      case WM_NCPAINT:
      // Let Windows do what it usually does. Let the window caption
      // be empty to avoid any Windows-initiated caption bar drawing

         DefWindowProc( hwnd, uMsg, wParam, lParam );
         hDC = GetWindowDC( hwnd );
         GetWindowRect( hwnd, (LPRECT)&rc2 );

      // Compute the caption bar's origin. This window has a system box
      // a minimize box, a maximize box, and has a resizeable frame

         x = GetSystemMetrics( SM_CXSIZE ) +
             GetSystemMetrics( SM_CXBORDER ) +
             GetSystemMetrics( SM_CXFRAME );
         y = GetSystemMetrics( SM_CYFRAME );
         rc1.left = x;
         rc1.top = y;

      // 2*x gives twice the bitmap+border+frame size. Since there are
      // only two bitmaps, two borders, and one frame at the end of the
      // caption bar, subtract a frame to account for this.

         rc1.right = rc2.right - rc2.left - 2*x -
                     GetSystemMetrics( SM_CXFRAME );
         rc1.bottom = GetSystemMetrics( SM_CYSIZE );

      // Render the caption. Use the active caption color as the text
      // background.

         SetBkColor( hDC, GetSysColor(COLOR_ACTIVECAPTION) );
         DrawText( hDC, (LPSTR)"Left Justified Caption", -1,
                 (LPRECT)&rc1, DT_LEFT );
        ReleaseDC( hwnd, hDC );
        break;
	}
}

which is pulled straight from the MSDN site, but the thing is painting the text but it is not painting the rest of the
window, which really messes up the program...any ideas?

Thanks!

Originally posted by Unimatrix_001

Code:

      // Add code here to draw caption when window is inactive.

Did you add code to where the comments request it be added?