Toolbar flat style and double buffering

John · Oct 27, 2003

Hi,

The application I'm writing requires double buffering it
also requires a toolbar with its appearance set to flat.
However, this causes a problem because when you set the
following control styles:

SetStyle(ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer, true);
SetStyle(ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, true);
SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint,true);

I've looked into this and It think its because of the
WM_ERASEBKG not being called, has anyone got a fix for
this, I don't know how to manually send this message and
at what time?

John

Bob Powell [MVP] · Oct 27, 2003

Setting the UserPaint style suppresses the WM_ERASEBKGND message and you are
supposed to call the OnPaintBackground explicitly in the drawing handler if
you still need it's default functionality.

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John · Oct 27, 2003

Thanks Bob,

Is this in the paint event?

i.e

base.OnPaintBackground()

John

Bob Powell [MVP] · Oct 27, 2003

base.OnPaintBackground()
yes, but with the PaintEventArgs handed in from the Paint handler.
Otherwise you can just paint your background explicitly in the Paint
handler.

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