When I resize the main window, manually, after everything has been created, I find some of the controls flicker. I have just recently added: "case WM_ERASEBKGND: return 1;" and though it helps significantly, there is still a slight flicker (not as annoying). Also, though it helps significantly with the flicker, as I resize the main window, it captures images from whatever is running behind my program.
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