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C^hris L^osinger20-Mar-09 7:09

20-Mar-09 7:09

Invalidate() doesn't redraw your window, it merely tells your window that the whole thing needs to be redrawn the next time the WM_PAINT message is handled.

if you want to erase the background, just fill it with the background color.

llp00na20-Mar-09 7:27

20-Mar-09 7:27

I am drawing on top of a web browser control

So cant use the background colour

I tried UpdateWindow() but does not work

llp00na

C^hris L^osinger20-Mar-09 7:35

20-Mar-09 7:35

UpdateWindow just sends the WM_PAINT message to your app, it doesn't actually cause painting to happen. basically painting happens whenever your app has nothing else to do and your app gets around to processing the WM_PAINT message. that's not going to happen in the middle of a function (unless you're doing something like an old-school Message Pump between statements).

but, basically, there is no "erase" functionality. there is only draw. if you need to erase drawing A, you have to draw what was there before you drew A.

David Crow20-Mar-09 9:25

20-Mar-09 9:25

llp00na wrote:
I am drawing on top of a web browser control

Which means that anytime the Web browser control redraws itself, anything drawn on top of it goes away.

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Code-o-mat20-Mar-09 7:30

Code-o-mat

20-Mar-09 7:30

Try RedrawWindow[^] instead of Invalidate...

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llp00na20-Mar-09 8:17

20-Mar-09 8:17

How do i force a web browser control to redraw itself?

llp00na

llp00na20-Mar-09 8:23

20-Mar-09 8:23

that did not work

llp00na

David Crow20-Mar-09 8:31

20-Mar-09 8:31

Are you using IWebBrowser2?

llp00na20-Mar-09 9:04

20-Mar-09 9:04

Yes

llp00na

David Crow20-Mar-09 9:06

20-Mar-09 9:06

Can you call it's Refresh() or Refresh2() method?

llp00na20-Mar-09 9:12

20-Mar-09 9:12

I have tried Refresh()

But it erases everything, even those created after Refresh is called

drawShapesA

Refresh()

drawShapesB

llp00na

David Crow20-Mar-09 9:15

20-Mar-09 9:15

Are you changing the HTML that the IWebBrowser2 control is rendering?

llp00na20-Mar-09 9:21

20-Mar-09 9:21

No I am not

llp00na

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jeron120-Mar-09 7:26

jeron1

20-Mar-09 7:26

Perhaps the Site Bugs/Suggestions forum would be a better place to ask.

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe20-Mar-09 7:30

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

20-Mar-09 7:30

The most obvious reason for a new article to be deleted is that it did not pass moderation (i.e. was not considered to be of suitable quality for the site). Common mistakes include poor grammar, inadequate explanations and posting code snippets which duplicate MSDN content.

That being the case, I would suggest taking a good look at the article (you did keep a copy, didn't you?) and working out how to improve it. As a guideline, take a look at highly rated (say over 4.5) articles on the site to ee what is expected.

Once you consider it up to par, feel free to re-submit it.

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Cedric Moonen20-Mar-09 8:18

Cedric Moonen

20-Mar-09 8:18

Because they didn't pass moderation. I guess some people posted things in the message boards of your articles, they probably told you what was wrong with your articles.

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GetPrivateProfileSectionW() [modified]

Jeffrey Chea26-Oct-09 12:33

Jeffrey Chea

26-Oct-09 12:33

My article was also deleted. I was hoping to use it as a future reference as well. God damn this site. It suck balls. Their article search is also FAIL. When you try to browse through articles, you'll see that the pages go on to infinity. I'm going to boycott this site now. I thought my articles would be able to help developers in the future too.

p_196020-Mar-09 5:42

p_1960

20-Mar-09 5:42

hi ,
Im using the below code....

/*the below is the ini file i used..

[name]
name1=promod
name2=praneeth

*/

const int SIZE = 8000;

CString csSectionname=_T("name");

char lpszBuffer[SIZE];

CString csString;

::GetPrivateProfileSectionW(csSectionname,(LPWSTR)lpszBuffer,SIZE,_T(c:\\testing.ini");

char* NextSection="";

NextSection=lpszBuffer;

while(*NextSection!=NULL)
{
csString=NextSection;
NextSection=NextSection+strlen(NextSection)+1;
AfxMessageBox(csString);
}

But the messagebox prints only single letter at once instead of displaying key and value pair....

ie messagebox is displaying 'n'--->first time..
is displaying 'a'--->second time
.
.
.
.
i need messagebox to display name1=promod for the first time itself.....

Please help me out......

modified on Friday, March 20, 2009 12:52 PM

C^hris L^osinger20-Mar-09 5:52

20-Mar-09 5:52

p_1960 wrote:
while(*cNextSection!=NULL)

what is "cNextSection", and where do you modify it?

Re: GetPrivateProfileSectionW() [modified]

p_196020-Mar-09 6:25

p_1960

20-Mar-09 6:25

Sorry it"s NextSection not cNextSection.... Please help me out...

modified on Friday, March 20, 2009 12:36 PM

C^hris L^osinger20-Mar-09 6:46

20-Mar-09 6:46

do you increment it anywhere ?

and i suspect, as David Crow notes below, that you're mixing Unicode and ANSI strings. GetPrivateProfileStringW is returning a wide char string, but NextSection is a char* pointer (not a wchar_t*), so it's only looking at one byte at a time:

GetPrivateProfileStringW gives you this:
n\0a\0m\0e\0 ... a NULL after each letter

p_196020-Mar-09 6:55

p_1960

20-Mar-09 6:55

Ya i do increment please have a look at the updated code....and what u said i exactly true ...but please let me know how can get the toal string ie name1=promod and display it thru messagebox..

C^hris L^osinger20-Mar-09 7:06

20-Mar-09 7:06

if you need to use GetPrivateProfileStringW, then NextSection should be a wchar_t*, not a char*.

and, you'll need to build your project in Unicode to get AfxMessageBox to handle wide chars.