GUICtrlCreatePic refresh issue

[polihale]

Hi everyone,

This is my first post. I've been using AutoIt for two years and never needed support until now (a credit to the authors). Glad I found this forum; didn't know until today it existed.

My issue is refreshing images that were created with GUICtrlCreatePic. I've search this site for an answer and found lots of related issues, but I still don't know what's going on.

I use GUICtrlCreatePic to draw an image. It works. Later on, I re-draw a new image over the old one, again using GUICtrlCreatePic. But the new image doesn't appear. If I minimize the application and then maximize it (forcing Windows XP to refresh it), the proper image appears.

How do I tell Windows to forcibly refresh the GUI?

Here is the .AU3 file along with some images for testing: test.zip package

I'm sure it's something simple. Thanks for the help.

Christopher

[GaryFrost]

#include <GUIConstants.au3>
GUICreate("Test",300,150,10,10)

$ChangeButton = GuiCtrlCreateButton("Change Color",50, 50, 125, 33)
$PanelColor = 1
$pic = GUICtrlCreatePic("",210,50,50,50)

GUISetState()

While 1
   $MSG = GUIGetMsg()
   Select

      Case $MSG = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
         Exit

      Case $MSG = $ChangeButton
          $PanelColor = $PanelColor + 1
          if $PanelColor = 4 then $PanelColor = 1
          if $PanelColor = 1 then
             GUICtrlSetImage($pic, @ScriptDir & "\red.jpg")
             GUICtrlCreateLabel('Red  ',220,110)
          endif
          if $PanelColor = 2 then
             GUICtrlSetImage($pic, @ScriptDir & "\grey.jpg")
             GUICtrlCreateLabel('Grey  ',220,110)
          endif
          if $PanelColor = 3 then
             GUICtrlSetImage($pic, @ScriptDir & "\yellow.jpg")
             GUICtrlCreateLabel('Yellow',220,110)
          endif

   EndSelect
Wend

[jpm]

#include <GUIConstants.au3>
GUICreate("Test",300,150,10,10)

$ChangeButton = GuiCtrlCreateButton("Change Color",50, 50, 125, 33)
$PanelColor = 1
           $pic=  GUICtrlCreatePic("red.jpg",210,50,50,50)

GUISetState()

While 1
   $MSG = GUIGetMsg()
   Select

      Case $MSG = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
         Exit

      Case $MSG = $ChangeButton
          $PanelColor = $PanelColor + 1
          if $PanelColor = 4 then $PanelColor = 1
          if $PanelColor = 1 then
             GUICtrlSetImage($pic,"red.jpg")
             GUICtrlCreateLabel('Red  ',220,110)
          endif
          if $PanelColor = 2 then
             GUICtrlSetImage($pic,"grey.jpg")
             GUICtrlCreateLabel('Grey  ',220,110)
          endif
          if $PanelColor = 3 then
             GUICtrlSetImage($pic,"yellow.jpg")
             GUICtrlCreateLabel('Yellow',220,110)
          endif

   EndSelect
Wend

You need to setimage not to recreate it

[polihale]

I figured it was something simple like that. Thanks. Works great now.