The Old New Thing

WM_CTLCOLOR vs GetFileVersionInfoSize: Just because somebody else screwed up doesn't mean you're allowed to screw up too

September 13, 2012 Sep 13, 2012 09/13/12

Raymond Chen

In a discussion of the now-vestigial parameter to the function, Neil asks, "Weren't there sufficient API differences (e.g. WM_CTLCOLOR) between Win16 and Win32 to justify changing the definitions to eliminate the superfluous handle?" The goal of Win32 was to provide as much backward compatibility with existing 16-bit source code as can ...