Ann: lesson 5 in Windows API level GUI programming "Window messagebasics"

  • Thread starter Alf P. Steinbach
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Alf P. Steinbach

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Contents of this lesson:
The power and limits of resources.
Packed message arguments, manual unpacking.
Use a separate message handler function for each message.
Unpack arguments via undocumented message cracker macros.
Be pedantically correct: support message results.

This lesson’s main points:

* Windows window messages are much like C++ virtual functions.
* The packing and unpacking of messages, having messages as data,
introduces some complexity.
* Dialog procedures impose special (complex) requirements on message
handling.


Cheers & enjoy,

- Alf
 

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