repaint

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   paint again

   I repainted the wall after the child smeared it with tomato sauce.

2. 2
   verb

   To paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.

   to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture

3. 3
   verb

   To draw or render again on the display.

   To force a window to repaint itself programmatically, you call the inherited Invalidate() method[…]

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

Etymology

From re- + paint (“verb”).