"Richard Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:38913@palm-dev-forum...
>
> Not doing squat is not an option unfortunatly. I recieve data via a radio
> link every 8 seconds and this must be updated (except when in a modal
> dialogue). I need to either programatically close the menu, or draw behind
> it, so when I close the menu my screen is all there. I f I draw behind the
> menu, I need the rest of the screen around the menu to update.
Why not do your drawing to an offscreen window the size of your viewing
area. Then, your update code just becomes a WinCopyRectangle from the
offscreen to the onscreen. This also lets you recover from modal forms that
can't save the behind the window state because there isn't enough heap
memory.
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Ben Combee
Veriprise Wireless <http://www.veriprise.com>
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