In my windows program I am making, when I resize the window the text disappears then when I am done resizing it re-appears. I am still having a little trouble with understanding exactly what is going on with windows thats causes this. When a window is resized a WM_PAINT message is one of the messages that is sent, right? In my event handler for WM_PAINT all I do is validate the window. In winMain is where I do all the textout stuff. So if the event handler for WM_PAINT does not do any rendering to the window, why does the screen get erased? Is some default windows processing going on since I am not doing something for a resize message being sent?

MAke sure the background brush is null. Also, if you don't repaint screen yourself, windows can do it for you under certain circumstances.

Andre'

I have the background set to black brush in the WINCLASSEX struct, wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(BLACK_BRUSH);

So when would I want to set the brush to null? Why might this fix the problem?

Hmmm, well, black or null. If you do the validate wrong then its possible it will redraw, so that might be the problem, null the brush, then it shouldn't do anything even if you made an error.

Andre'