{"id":44333,"date":"2015-04-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2015\/04\/01\/under-what-circumstances-will-a-dialog-box-not-use-the-caption-specified-in-the-resource-file\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:14:19","slug":"20150401-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20150401-00\/?p=44333","title":{"rendered":"Under what circumstances will a dialog box not use the caption specified in the resource file?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could it be space aliens<\/a>? <\/p>\n

Under what circumstances will a dialog box not use the caption specified in the resource file? In particular, we have a modal dialog box that is not using the caption from the resource file. Even if we explicitly call Set­Window­Text<\/code> from within the WM_INIT­DIALOG<\/code> handler, the call succeeds but the caption remains unchanged. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The dialog box’s initial title is the value specified in the resource template. And if you set it again in the WM_INIT­DIALOG<\/code> handler, then that new title overwrites the title from the resource template. Perhaps the problem is that some other code that runs after your WM_INIT­DIALOG<\/code> handler is changing the title yet again. <\/p>\n

The customer sheepishly wrote back, <\/p>\n

\n

[banging head against the wall] <\/p>\n

Being skeptical that there could ever be anything else overwriting the code I went to debug with Spy++. After some considerable effort I found out that yes, further down ~30 lines there’s a call to Set­Window­Text<\/code> that changes the title to something else. <\/p>\n

Thanks for making me look again. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sometimes the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who’s changing it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-44333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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