Paint does not paint my components

[mschnell]

I have a rather deep layer of visual components:
AudioProcessorEditor →
TabbedComponent →
three "MyTableModel"s, which are a class derived from Component and TableListBoxModel →
many "EditableTextCustomComponent"s (to make up the cell).

the EditableTextCustomComponent are created in refreshComponentForCell() by

.....
textLabel = new EditableTextCustomComponent (*this);
textLabel->setRowAndColumn (rowNumber, columnId);
 return textLabel;

My problem now is that if I change the text in the EditableText programmatically (e.g. in the AudioProcessorEditor.paint() callback), the cells do not get repainted. I trigger the paint by calling repaint() from a handleAsyncUpdate() callback, and I did verify that AudioProcessorEditor.paint() is called.

OTOH when I resize the window, the cells are immediately updated to the current text.

What am I doing wrong ?
Thanks,
-Michael

[matkatmusic]

@mschnell

if I change the text in the EditableText programmatically (e.g. in the AudioProcessorEditor.paint() callback), the cells do not get repainted

Have you added breakpoints on the code where you change the text, stepped in and actually watched the paint() function get called? What about adding a breakpoint in your EditableTextCustomComponent::paint() function?

Breakpoints are a good way to figure out if functions are even being called.
If you don’t want execution to pause, you can also simply add DBG(...); and keep an eye on the console output to make sure the functions that you expect to be called are actually called.