WM_ERASEBKGND

This message is sent by an application when the window background must be erased, for example, when a window is resized. The message is sent to prepare an invalidated portion of a window for painting.

WM_ERASEBKGND hdc = (HDC) wParam;

Parameters

• hdc
  Handle to the device context.

Return Values

An application should return nonzero if it erases the background; otherwise, it should return zero.

Remarks

The DefWindowProc function erases the background by using the class background brush specified by the hbrBackground member of the WNDCLASS. If hbrBackground is NULL, the application should process the WM_ERASEBKGND message and erase the background.

An application should return nonzero in response to WM_ERASEBKGND if it processes the message and erases the background; this indicates that no further erasing is required. If the application returns zero, the window will remain marked for erasing. (Typically, this indicates that the fErase member of the PAINTSTRUCT structure will be TRUE.)

Requirements

Note   This API is part of the complete Windows CE OS package as provided by Microsoft. The functionality of a particular platform is determined by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and some devices may not support this API.

See Also

BeginPaint, DefWindowProc, PAINTSTRUCT, WNDCLASS

 Last updated on Tuesday, July 13, 2004

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