hi could anybody help me with this newbie question? Every time I catch a WM_PAINT message, it looks something like this: case WM_PAINT: InvalidateRectangle... hDC = BeginPaint... // do the drawing here EndPaint... break; Now do I have to register all the pens and brushes with the hDC again every time the WM_PAINT is being handled? Or, if I don''t intend to change them throughout the whole program, is there a way to do it once just at the beginning so it doesn''t slow down the processing of WM_PAINT? Mago

Windows is a stupid operative system ( ¿¿WHAT?? ¿¿WINDOWS?? ¿¿AN OPERATIVE SYSTEM?? AH, AH, AH... ) and so on it makes stupids things, and one of that things are not guarantee that the device context passed to your window in one WM_PAINT message being the same device context that will pass to your window in the next WM_PAINT message. That''s the reason why you can''t store the hDC handle between WM_PAINT messages, and that''s the reason why you must create the pens, brushes and other Device objects every time you receive a W_PAINT message.

There is a way to solve that problem, and is to register the class of the window with the style CS_OWNDC. With this style, you can create the device objects only once (after created the window, of course).



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