Use Video Page Swapping with Device Contexts
This is a slightly optimised version of the popular CMemDC class that everyone seems to invent and re-invent.
For the fastest redraw put a bitmap in your Dialog, Control or View header:
CBitmap Bitmap;
In the .cpp file:
#include "MemDC.h"
and then call the following just once:
Bitmap.CreateCompatibleBitmap(pDC, Rect.Width(), Rect.Height());
If you don't have pDC use GetDC() which returns the DC of the screen.
If you're using OnPaint() use the following two lines:
CPaintDC PaintDC(this);
CMemDC dc(PaintDC, &Bitmap);
Then draw everything to dc - and that's it!
You don't need the Bitmap - just create the CMemDC with:
CPaintDC PaintDC(this);
CMemDC dc(PaintDC);
it'll be slower for complex animations, but fine for most Controls.
The same applies to OwnerDraw Buttons, create the MemDC object as follows:
void CMemDCTesterDlg::OnDrawItem(int nIDCtl, LPDRAWITEMSTRUCT lpDrawItemStruct) {
CMemDC dc(lpDrawItemStruct, &Bitmap);
Theres also a constructor for Views:
void CMyView::OnDraw(CDC* pDC) {
CMemDC dc(pDC, &Bitmap);
There is more about drawing on the Graphics section of this site.
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