Re: CreateDialog and sending a WM_NOTIFY from it

Woodrow Reece <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-xp,alt.windows7.general,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
R.Wieser wrote:
> Woodrow,
>
>>> The dialog in question is, for all intents and purposes, a child of the
>>> dialog that created it
> ...
>> In Microsoft's documentation, that is not what what a child window is.
>
> I know.  Why do you think I said "for all intents and purposes" ?

You gave us intents and purposes for which it is not a child window. You
failed to get a control ID from your dialog. You then failed to set a
control ID on the dialog itself.

>> Microsoft's documentation for WM_NOTIFY
> ...
>> Sent by a common control to its parent window when an event has occurred
>> or the control requires some information.
>
> Absolutily true.
>
> The problem is that you read that as an exclusion of everything else.  I
> don't.

You asked me for MS originated documentation. That is what I gave you.

Now you are putting words in my mouth. I am not responsible for your
failures to get or set the control ID which you wanted.
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