hiya fellow programmers.. am working on a program that draws a square on the screen, in windows. It''s supposed to keep drawing the square in a loop but the loop isn''t even gone through once by my program. Here''s how I did it: bool done = FALSE, drawsquare = FALSE; void winmain(yadda yadda yadda) { initsomestuff; initsomestuff; initsomestuff; initsomestuff; hwnd = CreateWindow( yadda yadda); CreateDialog(yadda); while(!done) { if(peekmsg(stuff)) dispatch, etc(); else if(drawsquare) //and I am positive this is working, it''s just not looping. { drawsquare(); //THIS IS THE PROBLEM, RIGHT HERE. etc etc. } } } LRESULT CALLBACK windowstuff (yadda) { switch(message)) { blah! } } LRESULT CALLBACK dialogstuff (yadda) { switch(message) { case IDD_BEGINSQUARE: drawsquare = TRUE; break; case WM_DESTROY: enddialog(); PostQuitMessage(0); } } now this is just alot of psuedo code half translated to C++ When I click the drawsquare button, it''s supposed to keep drawing the square, every frame. but it doesn''t even draw it once. When I put the drawsquare() call directly after the case IDD_DRAWSQUARE: it draws it once so I know that my drawsquare function is uhhhh functioning. Thanks for your time, any help will be appreciated.

Maybe the way how you use the IDD_BEGINSQUARE is wrong.
If this supposed to catch a button click you might want to try:

    BOOL CALLBACK DlgProcStuff(HWND hDlg, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam){	switch(uMsg)	{	case WM_INITDIALOG:		{			return TRUE;		}		case WM_COMMAND:			switch(LOWORD(wParam))	//HIWORD(wParam)==BN_CLICKED			{				case ID_BEGIN:					drawsquare = TRUE;					return 0;			}			break;	}	return FALSE;}    

And you must give the button the ID_BEGIN name.

(ps: Just wish we had a nice New Win32 Forum for problems like these )

Ok, thanks for replying but I don''t think you read my post clearly:


"When I click the drawsquare button, it''s supposed to
keep drawing the square, every frame. but it doesn''t even draw it once. When I put the drawsquare() call directly after the case IDD_DRAWSQUARE: it draws it once so I know that my drawsquare function is uhhhh functioning."

I also stated that I have presented readers with psuedo code, not the actual code (and I did it off the top of my head). My buttons work.

I figured out this problem but now another has arised.

How do I loop with dialog boxes?? any sites?

try removing the else from else if (drawsquare)..