Re: child window drawing extends onto dialog
You can specfiy a clip region:
void CMyCtrl::OnPaint()
{
CPaintDC dc(this);
CRect rect;
GetClientRect(&rect);
CRgn Rgn;
CRgn *pOldRgn =
Rgn.CreateRectRgn(rect.left,rect.top,rect.right,rect.bottom);
dc.SelectClipRgn(&Rgn,RGN_COPY);
//do drawing here
dc.SelectObject(pOldRgn);
}
AliR.
"King Menelaus" <menelaus@olympus.net> wrote in message
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This has got to be something obvious.
I've subclassed a static control on my dialog with a CWnd-derived class,
call it CMyControl. Here's how the control is declared in the rc file:
LTEXT "Static",IDC_STATIC_GRAPH,7,5,240,149
In CMyControl::OnPaint() I do some drawing using CPaintDC::SetPixel().
That works fine. However, if the drawing extends beyond the bounds of
CMyControl's client rectangle (which sometimes happens -- it's data being
read from a machine-control device), I would like it to not be visible.
Instead, it's being drawn onto the parent dialog's background. Do I need
to clip the data to CMyControl's rectangle myself, or is there some style
I'm missing that will do it for me? Why, if I'm drawing to CMyControl's
DC, am I seeing drawing on the dialog?
Much thanks,
JJ
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