Re: PostMessage() Error
David Webber <dave@musical.demon.co.uk> wrote:
<one2001boy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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// the following doesn't work
status = PostMessage(hwnd, WM_CHAR, s, strlen(s));
Correct. I presume you have defined the buffer s[] locally within
the function. Which means it will no longer exist when the function
exits. Some time later the handler of the message will look where it
was (at the address pointed to by s) and find garbage.
This is mostly beside the point. The handler of the message will _not_
look at the memory where the string was (whether on the stack, on the
heap or otherwise), because it will _not_ interpret the parameters
accompanying WM_CHAR message as pointers in the first place.
--
With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik
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