🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <C0Fx4F.6Cs@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umwaletz@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:

>I'm using Borland C++ 3.1 to create my app and here's the problem:
>
>I have this main window which contains about 20 children, with each
>child being a box containing a particular color. Up pops a dialog
>asking the user to respond to some questions and once this dialog
>disappears, I would like to update all of the children with their
>new colors (ie. force a WM_PAINT message).
>
>I thought all I had to do was Invalidate the parent window and call
>UpdateWindow, but this doesn't seem to work. I then tried Invalidating
>all of the children and calling UpdateWindow, but this didn't work
>either. Any ideas?
>
>James.
>umwaletz@ccu.umanitoba.ca
>
>

That *is* all you have to do!  Saying:

    InvalidateRect( hWnd, NULL, TRUE );
    UpdateWindow( hWnd );

forces a total repaint of window "hWnd".  This certainly *should* work.
-- 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Chris Marriott                           | chris@chrism.demon.co.uk    |
| Warrington, UK                           | BIX: cmarriott              |
| (Still awaiting inspiration              | CIX: cmarriott              |
|  for a witty .sig .... )                 | CompuServe: 100113,1140     |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------