WinRedraw

Redraws the specified window.

WinRedraw WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText

Parameters

WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText

Type: String, Integer or Object

If each of these is blank or omitted, the Last Found Window will be used. Otherwise, specify for WinTitle a window title or other criteria to identify the target window and/or for WinText a substring from a single text element of the target window (as revealed by the included Window Spy utility).

ExcludeTitle and ExcludeText can be used to exclude one or more windows by their title or text. Their specification is similar to WinTitle and WinText, except that ExcludeTitle does not recognize any criteria other than the window title.

Window titles and text are case-sensitive. By default, hidden windows are not detected and hidden text elements are detected, unless changed with DetectHiddenWindows and DetectHiddenText. When using pure HWNDs, hidden windows are always detected. By default, a window title can contain WinTitle or ExcludeTitle anywhere inside it to be a match, unless changed with SetTitleMatchMode.

Error Handling

A TargetError is thrown if the window could not be found.

An OSError is thrown if the selected platform backend cannot redraw the matching window.

Remarks

This function attempts to update the appearance/contents of a window by informing the OS that the window's rectangle needs to be redrawn. If this approach does not work for a particular window, try WinMove. If that does not work, try WinHide in combination with WinShow.

Linux

X11: The target window is cleared through X11 rather than by Windows-style invalidation, so results can differ between applications.

Wayland: Support for native Wayland windows has not yet been verified.

macOS

This function does not request a redraw. If the target exists, the call succeeds without changing the window.

WinMoveBottom, WinSetAlwaysOnTop, Win functions, Control functions