Re: Can't copy the background of my simple control

From:
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 1 May 2006 15:01:24 -0500
Message-ID:
<44566942$0$14919$a8266bb1@reader.corenews.com>
I would recommend using Regions. Create a region that is the same shape as
the icon you are trying to drag around, and set your window region to that
region. That way you don't have to worry about the background.

AliR.

"Maik Wiege" <mswiege-nospan-@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:44565eea$0$22101$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de...

Hello!
I made a simple control that should simply paint a dragable circle on
the screen, but I cant get the surrounding of the circle to become the
correct background of the parent. Here is what I've done:
I crated a MainFrame, View project (for Windows Mobile, but that should
be the same for win32) with the wizard. In the ChildView derived from

CWnd:

int CChildView::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
     if (CWnd::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
         return -1;
     svd = new CSimpleCircleDrawer();
     svd->Create(NULL,_T(""),WS_VISIBLE | WS_CHILD,
         CRect(10,10,30,30), this, 1234);
     return 0;
}
void CChildView::OnPaint()
{
     CPaintDC dc(this); // device context for painting
     CRect rect;
     GetClientRect(rect);
     CBrush brush(RGB(50, 50, 250));
     dc.FillRect(rect, &brush);
}

And my CSimpleCircleDrawer class:

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CSimpleCircleDrawer, CWnd)
     ON_WM_PAINT()
     ON_WM_LBUTTONDOWN()
     ON_WM_LBUTTONUP()
     ON_WM_MOUSEMOVE()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

void CSimpleCircleDrawer::OnPaint()
{
     CPaintDC dc(this); // device context for painting

     //Get the parents background
     CWnd* pParent = GetParent();
     CRect rect;
     GetClientRect(&rect);
     ClientToScreen(&rect);
     pParent->ScreenToClient(&rect);
     CDC *pDC = pParent->GetDC();
     CDC memdc;
     memdc.CreateCompatibleDC(pDC);
     CBitmap m_Bmp;
     CBitmap *pOldbmp = memdc.SelectObject(&m_Bmp);
     memdc.BitBlt(0,0,rect.Width(),rect.Height(),pDC,rect.left,
        rect.top,SRCCOPY);
     pParent->ReleaseDC(pDC);

     // copy the bitmap to the memdc
     memdc.CreateCompatibleDC(&dc);
     CBitmap memBmp;
     memBmp.CreateCompatibleBitmap(&dc,rect.Width(),rect.Height());
     memdc.SelectObject(&memBmp);

     //paint the background bitmap on the memory DC
     dc.SelectObject(&m_Bmp);
     memdc.BitBlt(0,0,rect.Width(),rect.Height(),&dc,0,0,SRCCOPY);
     dc.SelectObject(pOldbmp);

     // now draw a simple circle
     dc.Ellipse(0,0,20,20);
}

void CSimpleCircleDrawer::OnLButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point)
{
     SetCapture();
     m_bCaptured = TRUE;
     m_nDragOffset = point;

     CWnd::OnLButtonDown(nFlags, point);
}

void CSimpleCircleDrawer::OnLButtonUp(UINT nFlags, CPoint point)
{
     ReleaseCapture();
     m_bCaptured = FALSE;
     CWnd::OnLButtonUp(nFlags, point);
}

void CSimpleCircleDrawer::OnMouseMove(UINT nFlags, CPoint point)
{
     CWnd* pParent = GetParent();

     //Retrieve the old postion (in parent client coordinates)
     CRect oldPos;
     GetClientRect(&oldPos);
     ClientToScreen(oldPos);
     pParent->ScreenToClient(&oldPos);

     //Work out the new position (in parent client coordinates)
     CRect newPos(point.x - m_nDragOffset.x, point.y - m_nDragOffset.y,
           point.x - m_nDragOffset.x + m_nWidth,
           point.y - m_nDragOffset.y + m_nHeight);
     ClientToScreen(&newPos);
     pParent->ScreenToClient(&newPos);

     //Only move the vertex if it is inside the client rect of the
parent
     CRect clientRect;
     pParent->GetClientRect(&clientRect);
     if (newPos.left >= clientRect.left && newPos.top >=
           clientRect.top && newPos.right < clientRect.right &&
           newPos.bottom < clientRect.bottom)
     {
          // update the drawing
          MoveWindow(newPos, FALSE);
          pParent->InvalidateRect(oldPos, FALSE);
          Invalidate(TRUE);
     }
     CWnd::OnMouseMove(nFlags, point);
}

So what is wrong here? The circle is painted fine and I can drag it
around, but the surrounding of the circle is not painted blue as it
should because the parent is blue.

Thanks for any help
  Maik

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