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Why does my window style change when I call SetWindowText?

March 22, 2012 Mar 22, 2012 03/22/12

Raymond Chen

A customer observed some strange behavior with window styles: We ran some weird behavior: Calling the function causes a change in window styles. Specifically, calling results in the and messages, and sometimes the result is that the style is removed. Is this a bug? What would cause this? The message sends the message to the control, ...