After calling MoveWindow() with TRUE, the window client area is still invalid

Question

"If the bRepaint parameter is TRUE, the system sends the WM_PAINT message to the window procedure immediately after moving the window (that is, the MoveWindow function calls the UpdateWindow function)."

But when I call GetUpdateRect() after MoveWindow(), while processing the WM_LBUTTONDOWN message in the parent, I get a beep, which shows that the child is invalid. What is the explanation ???

#include <windows.h>
#include <windowsx.h>
#include <tchar.h>

HINSTANCE   ghInstance;

LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProc (HWND hwnd, UINT message, UINT wParam, LONG lParam);
LRESULT CALLBACK ChildProc (HWND hwnd, UINT message, UINT wParam, LONG lParam);

int APIENTRY WinMain (HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpszCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
    HWND        hWnd;
    MSG     msg;
    WNDCLASSEX  wndclassx;

    ghInstance = hInstance;

    wndclassx.cbSize        = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);
    wndclassx.style         = 0;
    wndclassx.lpfnWndProc   = WindowProc;
    wndclassx.cbClsExtra    = 0;
    wndclassx.cbWndExtra    = 0;
    wndclassx.hInstance     = hInstance;
    wndclassx.hIcon         = 0;
    wndclassx.hCursor       = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
    wndclassx.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);
    wndclassx.lpszMenuName  = NULL;
    wndclassx.lpszClassName = _T("ParentWindow");
    wndclassx.hIconSm       = NULL;

    if( !RegisterClassEx(&wndclassx) ) return 0;

    wndclassx.cbSize        = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);
    wndclassx.style         = 0;
    wndclassx.lpfnWndProc   = ChildProc;
    wndclassx.cbClsExtra    = 0;
    wndclassx.cbWndExtra    = 0;
    wndclassx.hInstance     = hInstance;
    wndclassx.hIcon         = 0;
    wndclassx.hCursor       = 0;
    wndclassx.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);
    wndclassx.lpszMenuName  = NULL;
    wndclassx.lpszClassName = _T("ChildWindow");
    wndclassx.hIconSm       = NULL;

    if( !RegisterClassEx(&wndclassx) ) return 0;

    if( !(hWnd = CreateWindow(_T("ParentWindow"), _T("Parent Window"), WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW | WS_CLIPCHILDREN,
                              CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, NULL, NULL, hInstance,
                              NULL)) ) return 0;

    ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_SHOW);
    UpdateWindow(hWnd);

    while( GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0) )
    {
        TranslateMessage(&msg);
        DispatchMessage(&msg);
    }

    return (int)msg.wParam;
}

LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProc (HWND hwnd, UINT message, UINT wParam, LONG lParam)
{
    HWND    hWnd;

    switch ( message )
    {
        case WM_CREATE:

        CreateWindow(_T("ChildWindow"), NULL, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_BORDER, 10, 10, 100, 100, hwnd, (HMENU)0,
                          ghInstance, NULL);
        break;

        case WM_LBUTTONDOWN:

        hWnd = GetWindow(hwnd, GW_CHILD);

        MoveWindow(hWnd, 10, 10, 200, 200, true);

        if( GetUpdateRect(hWnd, NULL, FALSE) ) MessageBeep(-1);
        break;

        case WM_DESTROY:
        PostQuitMessage(0);
        break;

        default:

        return DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
    }
    return 0;
}

LRESULT CALLBACK ChildProc (HWND hwnd, UINT message, UINT wParam, LONG lParam)
{
    return DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
}

needs some formatting. Try editing this post; mark all your code and; press the "code" icon in the editing menu — default
Have you checked the return values of CreateWindow and GetWindow and made sure that you do not get NULL? — default
The program is running normally. The CreateWindow() creates the child and GetWindow() returns the child handle. What do you mean by "mark all your code " ? — Ayrosa
as you can see, some of your code is in a grey box. if you click the edit button, select/mark all the text that is supposed to be code, and then click the "Code Sample" button (the 101010 button) it will be easier to read — default

Ayrosa Ayrosa · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-19T13:27:36

The MSDN doc's is wrong. MoveWindow() with TRUE doesn't call UpdateWindow() as the documentation says. It just invalidates the window client area. If I call UpdateWindow() just after MoveWindow() the program runs as expected.

After calling MoveWindow() with TRUE, the window client area is still invalid

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