Make sure you don't draw anything to the screen before FrmDrawForm. e.g.
call your form init routine after FrmDrawForm when you handle frmOpenEvent.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bradly J. Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 12:31 AM
Subject: Screen Repaints and OS3.5
>Ok, I haven't seen anyone else bring this up so I'll bite the bullet and
>bring up what may be a stupid question....
>
>I have situations where I have created a form without the Save Behind box
>checked in the constructor. When switching from one of these forms to
>another, I have used FrmGotoForm and then for the form I am going to, on
>the frmOpenEvent I have called FrmDrawForm .... this has worked just fine
>all the way through OS 3.3 (at least it seemed to work on the Palm V
>emulator).
>
>On OS3.5 and on my new IIIc, one of the previous forms seems to be drawn
>first then the second form drawn over it with the same code as described
>above. This has the effect of having a screen that looks like it wasn't
>erased and a new screen just drawn over the top of it..... now for what may
>be the stupid question...
>
>What happened? Is this a different way of doing things in OS3.5? I can make
>the problem in 3.5 go away if I either (a) Check Save Behind on my
>non-dialog forms or (b) don't call FrmDrawForm as a response to the
>frmOpenEvent. If I do (b), the same PRC doesn't work on pre-3.5 OS
>versions. Is this the right approach? Should I have been doing (a) all
>along? Am I doing this completely wrong? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
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