Force a window frame to repaint?

[jedjed]

Does anyone know how to force the border of a window to redraw itself?

Thanks
MAP

[Aaron Young]

Use the SetWindowPos API with the SWP_FRAMECHANGED Flag, eg.

Private Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long

Private Const WS_CAPTION = &HC00000
Private Const GWL_STYLE = (-16)
Private Const SWP_FRAMECHANGED = &H20
Private Const SWP_NOMOVE = &H2
Private Const SWP_NOSIZE = &H1

Private Sub Command1_Click()
'Toggle the Caption Bar On/Off
Call SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE, GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE) Xor WS_CAPTION)
Call SetWindowPos(hwnd, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&, SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE Or SWP_FRAMECHANGED)
End Sub



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Aaron Young
Analyst Programmer
aarony@redwingsoftware.com
adyoung@win.bright.net

[jedjed]

Thanks alot Aaron.

MAP