Thank you Scott. I will handle the frmUpdate.
Keith
"Scott Johnson (WA)" wrote:
> It's a debug feature of the 3.5 debug ROM, and it just did its job for you.
> It deliberately doesn't restore saved bits behind dialogs and alerts.
> Instead it just sends a frmUpdate event to your main form, which you must
> handle if you have any custom drawn items (such as the line in your app).
> By default the OS handles frmUpdate by redrawing all the standard form
> objects but doesn't know to redraw your custom line.
>
> This feature was added because normally you don't get the case where the
> background bits can't be saved (due to insufficient memory) but it does
> happen sometimes, usually to end users. Therefore many apps don't handle it
> properly. And in 3.5, this situation can happen more often because color or
> gray scale bitmaps consume more memory than black-and-white ones.
>
> -slj-