April 25, 2006 | The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

Correctly spell xerophthalmia and the crowd goes wild

Raymond Chen April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

One of the things I did in San Francisco was attend a performance of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. I went into the show with some trepidation, fearing that it would recall painful memories from my own career on the spelling bee circuit as a middle-schooler. Fortunately, my experience as a spelling bee participant only served to...

No, really, you need to pass all unhandled messages to DefWindowProc

Raymond Chen April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06

Earlier I had discussed that you have to return the special value BROADCAST_QUERY_DENY if you want to deny a device removal query because too many programs thought that they had covered "all" the Windows messages and just returned zero for the others. Since then, there have been lots of other window messages added to the system, many of which...

The Old New Thing

April 25, 2006 | The Old New Thing

Correctly spell xerophthalmia and the crowd goes wild

No, really, you need to pass all unhandled messages to DefWindowProc

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