The Old New Thing

Why doesn't RealGetWindowClass return the real window class for my superclass?

July 13, 2012 Jul 13, 2012 07/13/12

Raymond Chen

A customer was reporting that the function was not reporting the base window class of their superclass. (Error checking has been elided for expository purposes.) The customer found that the assertion fails, returning a window class name of "AwesomeWindow" instead of "static". "I thought the point of RealGetWindowClass was to dig through ...