MSDN question

[OneEyeMan]

Hi, ALL,
How can I find the documentation on the OnItemPostPaint() function?
If I go to msdn.microsoft.com and search for this function the search comes back empty.

Google also does not produce any msdn links.

Thank you.

[Paul McKenzie]

Hi, ALL,
How can I find the documentation on the OnItemPostPaint() function?
If I go to msdn.microsoft.com and search for this function the search comes back empty.

Google also does not produce any msdn links.

OnItemPostPaint seems to be a WTL constant, and WTL is not part of the official Visual C++ set of libraries offered by Microsoft.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie

[OneEyeMan]

Paul,
Do you know of the Win32 function in MSVC that will do the same thing?

I'm looking for something like this.

Thank you.

[Paul McKenzie]

Paul,
Do you know of the Win32 function in MSVC that will do the same thing?

Search the WTL source code and see how that message is generated.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie

[ovidiucucu]

There's not "OnItemPostPaint", neither in Windows SDK (or MFC or other known library from MS), nor in WTL.
It just looks (with respect of some naming convention) like an application-defined message handler name.
So you cannot expect to find it in MSDN or WTL documentation.

[ovidiucucu]

I'm looking for something like this.

Aha!

That code snippet handles a notification sent by a custom draw control.
Please, have a look in our previous discussion, and note again: in Windows there is no "standard" message/notification handler (name).
So generally, it has no much sense to search documentation for a given message/notification handler name. Instead, search for the message/notification name itself.
In our case: first search MSDN for NM_CUSTOMDRAW notification code, then dig into the related topics:

• MSDN: NMCUSTOMDRAW structure
• MSDN: Custom Draw