I wrote a map editor using Visual C++ and DirectX for tile-based games that runs in a window awhile back. Everything works fine except for one thing that's been bothering me. If the map editor is the active application, with another window underneath it, and you activate the window underneath, that window doesn't get shown fully. My map editor obscures part of the window - usually only the title bar and window border. This clipped screenshot from my desktop shows what I mean:
Notepad is the active application in this pic, but as you can see, the title bar, menu bar, and window border are still covered by the map editor. To determine whether or not my window is active, my WindowProc() has the following code in it (in a switch statement):
case WM_ACTIVATE:
if (LOWORD(wparam) == WA_INACTIVE)
focus = FALSE;
else
focus = TRUE;
return(0);
break;
Then, if (!focus), nothing in my main program loop executes except checking the message queue. Otherwise the map editor window updates about 30 times a second. What am I doing wrong that poor old Notepad is getting its title bar mangled?
-Ironblayde
Aeon Software
EDIT: One other thing that happens too. If the Windows screensaver kicks in while the map editor window is active, the map editor shows one last frame... after the screensaver has set fullscreen graphics! So the result is a starfield where the stars are slowly eliminating that one last frame my map editor felt it had to show.
Edited by - Ironblayde on 9/4/00 6:11:23 AM
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