Resizing Window

[qhimq]

hi

I built a program on windows 2000 professional and it works flawlessly to the eye. I can resize the window and all of it's contents scales correctly. I moved it onto windows XP with a setting that when any window is resized, it draws an outline instead of a displaying the window resizing with the cursor. Drawing that outline is configured somewhere in the OS not in my program. For some reason with this setting XP has my program killed when it is attempted to be resized.

Any suggestions? I have tryed it on other XP computers that do not outline resizing windows and it works perfectly.

I can't find where to change this setting or what it is even called to research into it. Help?



Thanks!

[ravenspoint]

- click start
- click control panel
- click display
- click appearance
- click effects
- check 'show window contents while dragging'

[qhimq]

mm, I tried that but it didn't change anything, but now that I think of it, maybe I needed to open a new window for it to go into affect for that window.

Thanks, I'll let you know if it worked when i get to a computer that has that ability to change that setting.

[ravenspoint]

maybe I needed to open a new window for it to go into affect for that window.

The change should take place immediatly, for all windows, as soon as you click 'OK' and then 'apply'. No need to open a new window.

Try toggling the check box, clicking a'OK', clicking 'Apply' and then resizing any window.

If you cannot see a difference, then there is something very wrong with your system.

[qhimq]

Thanks for the help, everything is solved now.

For some reason the WM_DESTROY would show up after I killed a window while resizing with showing window contents off, and the other way around when on.