Basic BitBlt/Focus Question

Here's the dealio. I've got a form. On it is a pic box. I am drawing things on the pic box with bitblt. When the form is covered, loses focus, etc. the BitBlt images are gone, i want to redraw these when the form regains focus, BUT the GotFocus event isn't working. I threw the call to my bit blt function in the got focus event of the form, and its not working, anyone have any ideas? I could put a timer on there, but I'd rather not do it that way because it causes the images to blink, or flicker. It just doesn't look good. Thanks.

If you don't want to use the autoredraw property, then you could always put it in the paint function (although this may make the form a bit jerky if there's a lot of BitBlting).

the problem with the paint function is that it is caleld way to often (I think even when blitting on the form, but I can't say for sure)
I did not mention it since he already said he does not want to use a timer because that could cause flickering so I guess the paint function would be inacceptable.

I thought that possibly the GotFocus was calling the bitblt too soon, so I just threw a msgbox in there to see if it was working at all. And it didn't pop the box either, so perhaps if I could get it to work at alll, and maybe put a quick sleep on there to give the form time to display.

well I doubt sleep will do it but you could try a loop with do loop
put a doevents into it and let the loop run for a bunch of milliseconds, that is no great coding though...

have you ever tried me.show ? (and a doevents afterwards)