[RESOLVED] DrawText in AnimateWindow.

[techie.ashish]

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;
}

[kirants]

Not sure what your goal is with trying to draw into a control from the parent window. Why not let the control handle it's own painting.

Also, calling UpdateWindow from a WM_PAINT handler is a No-no.

[techie.ashish]

Yes Thanks..I was not giving opportunity to control to handle the painting..

Thanks a ton...