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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: Question on method name in TPW
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 20:10:12 GMT
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In article <91170.083555F0O@psuvm.psu.edu> F0O@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>
>   HI!
>
>   In TPW, in the Windows Programmers Guide, step 6: Automatically re-
>displaying graphics, I notice they use procedures:
>   TMyWindow.WMLButtonDown
>   TMyWindow.MouseMove
>   TMyWindow.Paint
>
>   Why isn't the Paint method called WMPaint?  That's what the actual
>Windows message is called.  I used a WMPaint method in one of my programs

As I read the online docs on the two, Paint is a procedure to paint the
window, while WMPaint is a procedure to service the WMPaint message.  The
distinction is that WMPaint calls BeginView, Paint, then EndView to 
communicate with the scrollers.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu