Re: how to post message to a button which is being created

From:
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 28 Apr 2006 05:36:52 -0400
Message-ID:
<u9Tn5cqaGHA.4972@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
victorzou wrote:

Hi,All
      I get the button Hwnd which is being created via hook. I want to
send message to this button.

   CButton *btn=new CButton();
   btn->Attach(hWnd);
   BOOL bs=btn->SendMessage(BN_CLICKED,0,0);
   if (bs) TRACE("send ok");

   BOOL bp=btn->PostMessage(BN_CLICKED,0,0);
   if (bp) TRACE("post ok");

post message is ok ,sendmessage is failed. I know the reason is the
creation of the button is not finished. now I want to add waiting time
when post message to the creating button .

My question is how to set additional message ( wParam and lParam ) in
PostMessage( UINT message, WPARAM wParam = 0, LPARAM lParam = 0 );


victorzou:

I'm not sure what you are trying to do here. Buttons send the BN_CLICKED
notification to the parent, not the other way around. Also, BN_CLICKED
is sent via the WM_COMMAND message. The BN_CLICKED is nominally the
HIWORD of wParam, but its value is actually zero.

Your sendMessage fails because zero is not a valid Windows message.

What are you actually tring to do?

David Wilkinson

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