RE: [GD-Windows] Windows paints my window!

[Steve L. <st...@mi...>]

This has always been the case.  You must pump messages, USER will paint
your client area white if you don't.

The following is purely a theory about the behaviour change. When
fullscreeen, previously you might have switched to the non-GDI surface,
so when windows paints it white you wouldn't see it.  Maybe now you have
flipped to the surface that GDI knows about and you're seeing the white
paint.

Cheers,
	Steve

Steve Lacey
- Chief Code Wrangler
- ironWorks Entertainment


-----Original Message-----
From: Javier Arevalo [mailto:ja...@py...]=20
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 9:44 AM
To: GDWindows
Subject: [GD-Windows] Windows paints my window!

Hi!

During long load times (not so long actually, but hey) Windows sometimes
seems to decide that the game's window needs repainting and erasing. The
app
is not responding to messages because it's busy loading stuff. I thought
that setting the hbrBackground of the WNDCLASS struct  to NULL was
enough to
prevent this, but it still paints the window white. This only happens
when
the game runs in fullscreen mode, never in the windowed mode we use for
development. Even funnier is that it only started happening a few days
ago,
but we have been unable to find any changes we might have done to the
Window
or DirectX handling code for the past _months_.

Any ideas where to look at? Even the slightest trace of a pointer will
be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
  Javier Arevalo
  Pyro Studios




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