Re: CStatic WM_SETTEXT ... ?

From:
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:05:43 -0800
Message-ID:
<9B8E8853-38E7-4826-8BD7-03837B04103D@microsoft.com>
".rhavin grobert" <clqrq@yahoo.de> wrote in message
news:53ecf033-f8be-4fef-a3f5-247581c8fc49@v19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...

in app:

m_MyStatic.SetWindowText("foo");

in class:

//
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
BOOL CMyStatic::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg)
{
if (pMsg->message == WM_SETTEXT)
{
// the following line is never readed !?!
ASSERT(false);
}
return CStatic::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg);
}

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+

instead, just a WM_PAINT is send.... any ideas how to trap
WM_SETTEXT?

TIA, ~.rhavin;)


I haven't looked at the MFC source, but SetWindowText might do a
SendMessage(WM_SETTEXT, ...) which I believe bypasses PreTranslateMessage().
You could call m_MyStatic.PostMessage(WM_SETTEXT, ...) instead and see if
that works. I have successfully overridden the OnSetText() handler in a
CStatic derived class, and that does work, so it's not WM_SETTEXT that's the
problem; most likely it's the call of it.

-- David

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