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Now that we know how works, we can look at what it is for. Actually, the intended purpose of can be captured in one word: dragging. But we'll get to that a little later. The purpose of is to allow a program to temporarily take over the responsibility of drawing a window. Of course, in order to do this, you have to prevent the window procedure...

Poor misunderstood . This is the first in a series on , what it does, what it's for and (perhaps most important) what it's not for. What does is pretty simple. When a window is locked, all attempt to draw into it or its children fail. Instead of drawing, the window manager remembers which parts of the window the application tried to draw into...

As a general rule, I avoid using any class libraries in my sample code. This isn't because I'm opposed to class libraries, but rather because I don't want to narrow my audience to "people who use MFC" (to choose one popular class library). If I were to start using MFC for all of my samples, I'd probably lose all the people who don't use MFC. "Oh, ...

Occasionally, a customer will ask, "I'm trying to display a property sheet, but when I call the function, the property sheet blinks onto the screen and then immediately disappears. What is wrong?" Recall that displaying a property sheet entails filling out a structure, which in turn contains a pointer to either an array of s, or more often, an a...

Another class of rookie mistake is less obvious from looking at the code. The problem with this code is that we forgot to call to register the listview class. More generally, the problem is that one of the controls on the dialog uses a window class that was not registered. (For example, maybe there's a rich edit control on the dialog, but nobo...

Each dialog box resource is specified either by an integer ordinal or by a string name. But a simple typo will turn one into the other. Do you see the two "classic rookie mistakes"? It may be easier to spot if you take the resource file and send it through the preprocessor first: The first call to passes as the resource name. But notice ...

If vertical strips are better, why do toolbars use horizontal strips? An early version of the toolbar control first made its appearance in Windows 3.0, and in those days, screen resolutions were low and toolbar buttons were small. Horizontal or vertical didn't really matter. Ten bitmaps, each 16 × 16, at 4-bit color, comes out to one ...

This isn't psychic debugging, but it's the sort of dumb mistake everybody makes and which you can't see when re-reading your code because your brain shows you what you want to see, not what's really there. I'm trying to respond to the notification, but it's not working. What am I doing wrong? You can stare at this code for ages and completel...

Serge Wautier asks, "Why are the copy/cut/paste buttons not disabled when there's nothing to copy/cut/paste?", noting that the back/forward buttons do disable themselves when navigation is not possible in that direction. To get to this question, we'll first go back in time a bit to a world without toolbars. In those early days, these dynamic optio...

The documentation for the parameter for the function covers the issue, but since people seem to really like charts and tables, I'll present the same information in tabular form.