DrawText in animatewindow. [modified]

[gothic_coder]

Hi all.. How do i use DrawText in animate window. With the help of animate window i'm popping up my dialog box. And in WM_PAINT i'm using DrawText to put some text on Bitmap. DrawText works fine when i don't use animatewindow. But it didn't work when using animatewindow.

case WM_PAINT:
{
PAINTSTRUCT ps;
HDC hDC;
hDC = BeginPaint(hWnd, &ps);

   RECT r = {0};
HDC hdc\_bitmap\_text = NULL;
UpdateWindow(hWnd);
GetClientRect(GetDlgItem(hWnd, IDC\_NEW\_BITMAP), &r);
hdc\_bitmap\_text = GetDC(GetDlgItem(hWnd, IDC\_NEW\_BITMAP));

if(hdc\_bitmap\_text)
{
	SetBkMode(hdc\_bitmap\_text, TRANSPARENT);
	SetTextColor(hdc\_bitmap\_text, RGB(0,0,0)); 

    	DrawText(hdc\_bitmap\_text,
			iCm->BitmapMessage,
			-1, 
			&r, 
			DT\_SINGLELINE | DT\_CENTER | DT\_VCENTER);
			
	ReleaseDC(GetDlgItem(hWnd, IDC\_NEW\_BITMAP), hdc\_bitmap\_text);
	hdc\_bitmap\_text = NULL;
}
  EndPaint(hWnd, &ps);

break;
}

modified on Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:25 AM

[Jose David Pujo]

try

RedrawWindow (hWnd, 0,0,RDW_ERASE | RDW_INVALIDATE | RDW_FRAME | RDW_ALLCHILDREN);

Maybe parameters should be diferent: Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534900(VS.85).aspx[^]

[gothic_coder]

It might be silly question.. But where to put Redraw??

[Jose David Pujo]

I suggest at the end of the block, after DrawText.

[gothic_coder]

Thanks.. But it's not working.. Tried different Flags also.. Does DrawText ever works with AnimateWindow or Moving Dialog??

[Hamid Taebi]

I think its better you use of WM_TIMER for DrawText .

[Jose David Pujo]

I agree, WM_TIMER will work fine