Heya people, I'm having some trouble with my controls. I have a window which owns a tab window. The tab window, in turn, owns a button. The problem is that I'm trying to redraw the button manually, but I can't catch the redraw message when the button has the tab window as parent. It works fine when use the main window instead - but I'd rather have the tab window as parent; don't know what will happend on other windows platforms if I don't get the child hierarchy right. Anyone have any idea how I'm supposed to make the tabwindow route the button messages to the main window? I'm using c++ and the win32 api only.

What window are you listening for messages on? Make sure you have a WndProc set up for the button's HWND if you are trying to get WM_PAINT messages for it. If that is already set up correctly, try setting (or not setting, if it is already set) the window style WS_CLIPCHILDREN on the tab window when you create it. Failing that, try calling RedrawWindow() for the tab window and/or the button window when the parent window gets a WM_PAINT. You may also want to check the WM_PAINT semantics and make sure there's nothing else you've missed.

MSDN has details on the window style flags if you want to experiment with other options as well.