repaint meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

repaint

verb

/ɹiːˈpeɪnt/ · /ˈɹiːpeɪnt/

Etymology From re- + paint (“verb”).

To paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.

to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture
Nearly all of their locomotives have never been repainted, which is as much as 24 years in the case of some of the DB Cargo units.2022 September 21, “Network News: Freight firms continue repaints on Class 66s”, in RAIL, number 966, page 17:

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Ambitransitive To draw or render again on the display.

To force a window to repaint itself programmatically, you call the inherited Invalidate() method[…]2010, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, page 1551:

noun

Etymology From re- + paint (“verb”).

The act or process of painting something again, especially if recently painted.

They didn't like the color so we had to do a repaint.
More join us at Colwall and at the lovely station at Great Malvern, although the place is in need of some TLC nowadays. The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the closed cafe gives the place a forlorn air.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The act of drawing or rendering again on the display.

WPF will call your OnRender function when it needs to know what content your visual displays, but the way graphics acceleration works in WPF means that this happens far less often than the equivalent repaints in Win32.2005, Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths, Programming Windows Presentation Foundation:

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