Basic BitBlt/Focus Question

[mattkinser]

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.

[SLH]

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).

[/\/\isanThr0p]

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.

[mattkinser]

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.

[/\/\isanThr0p]

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)