[RESOLVED] DrawText in AnimateWindow.

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.

Code:

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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;
}

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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.

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

Thanks a ton...