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>>You need to make MSDN your friend

Yaah!!!
RTFM always help. Just walked through another MSDN topic and understood finally how this WM_PAINT message work.

By the way, I have tested several...

Thanks a lot for reply.
I didn't noticed that style flag. I will try it.
It's sad that all books on WINAPI are the same in a sense that they describe only basics.
I would like to learn more about...

Hi ALL,

I am the crazy one who still program gui today using pure winapi interface.

I would like to figure out how to create this type of window (pic attached).
It is the window from Visual...

After debugging i have solved the problem.
WM_SIZE message handler for MDI child window was returning 0. Meaning that Default window procedure was not called.
I seems that for correct window...

Hello.
The parent of the tab control is handle of the MDI window upon which it is created.
I also noticed another ussue. All MDI windows has title. When we maximize MDI window the title of the main...

Hi ALL,

My application GUI based on winapi and utilizes MDI.
Everything was fine but when i added tab control to mdi child window i noticed a problem.
When this window is maximized (within the...

I am not programming with win GDI for a long time so i can't be 100% sure.
The function TextOut(hMemDC, 20, 30, "Hello world", 12); expects the origin (0,0) to be at the top left corner of the...

Hello everyone,

I have created a dialog box (WinAPI). I added a Edit Control upon it. I want to draw inside with it using OPenGL.
I simply set the color of the background of the edit control to...

Hello everyone,

I'm digging an old project and i can't switch to a newer visual studio.

I want to plot float data array during debug.

I know some IDE's have such option. There is a separate...

>>A device?...As in a peripheral? Or software?

It is a device which has x86 processor inside and Embedded XP.

It is a good idea to use a file. The only problem i see is sync.
When program is...

Ok. I was unclear.

There is a device running on Embedded XP. It measures some parameters of the fiber optics line. It is connected to a network.
Operator resides far from that device and wants to...

The c++ generates array of numbers which must be plotted in the browser.
Also there are some numbers which must be displayed in edit box.
I want that data could be updated automatically every 5...

Hello,

There is a computer where C++ program runs. I want to connect to it with a browser an see the data in the browser. The data is calculated by the C++ program.
As i understand there must be...

I have Apache server installed. I'm using Flot library to plot data in the browser.
The data is generated in other software written in C++.
I want the JavaScript to send command (when user press...

>>How would I go about subclassing the parent form?

After creating the form (CreateWindow / CreateWindowEx) do the following:


prevwndproc = (WNDPROC) SetWindowLong (
handle,...

I don't know what controls do you use. I had a tab control. I did subclassing only for it, not for controls that is have. I worked for me.
As i understood you have flickering when you resize your...

Hi,

I had a problem with flickering using tab control. I solved it with the help of sublass procedure
Here how it looks like:


WinTabBase* object =...

Here what i found about that:




So there are main thread message loop and secondary internal message loop. When resize happens messages are sent to internal loop and not processed in thread's...

I have tried this:


while(GetMessage(&msg,0,0,0))
{
if(!FilterCommand(msg))
{
TranslateMessage(&msg);
if(msg.message == WM_SIZE)
{

Yes. It seems that WM_SIZE is non queued message.

I will describe the problem more deeply.

I have a thread that creates a window. It has message loop and window proc. Working ok.
I have...

I tried this. I see that messages arriving. I can capture WM_PAINT for example. But not WM_SIZE.
I also tried this:


while(GetMessage(&msg,0,0,0))
{
if(msg.message == WM_SIZE)...

I'm using the following code:



while(GetMessage(&msg,0,0,0))
{
if(msg.message == WM_SIZE)
OutputDebugString(L"SIZE");

TranslateMessage(&msg);

Hi, everyone

I'm checking messages in a message loop. After i call GetMessage i'm trying to identify message from message field of the MSG structure. I found that identifiers differs from those...

No. I wasn't aware about this option. That worked. Thanks.

PS: I found alternative way to do:
SendMessage(hwndDlg,DM_SETDEFID,IDOK,0);
and to ensure that there is no IDOK control in the dialog...

Hi all,

I have several edit controls and buttons on an edit control. When a number is entered and the user press enter i would like that nothing would happen.
So i would like to disable the...