message identifiers F3 F4 281 hex

[Chris Holbrook]

I can't work out what these messages are. They are sent to a button control. Any ideas please?

[Paul Dixon]

Chris,
most messages are defined in the win32api.inc file. Search there:

' Button Control Messages
%BST_UNCHECKED     = &H00
%BST_CHECKED       = &H01
%BST_INDETERMINATE = &H02
%BST_PUSHED        = &H04

%BM_GETCHECK = &HF0
%BM_SETCHECK = &HF1
%BM_GETSTATE = &HF2
%BM_SETSTATE = &HF3
%BM_SETSTYLE = &HF4
%BM_CLICK    = &HF5
%BM_GETIMAGE = &HF6
%BM_SETIMAGE = &HF7

Paul.

[Chris Holbrook]

Thanks Paul.

There's looking and seeing.

Still looking for &H218, if WINAPI is to be believed it's a %WM_IME_SETCONTEXT, I wasn't aware of having rattled IME's cage.

[Adam J. Drake]

%WM_POWERBROADCAST is &H218.

[Chris Holbrook]

%WM_POWERBROADCAST is &H218.

Sorry Adam I meant 281. Bin a long day.

[Adam J. Drake]

Don't even have the first clue what IME is - but according to MSDN's description, not much to this one: Sent to an application when a window is activated. A window receives this message through its WindowProc function.

[Chris Holbrook]

Input Method Editor - it's for languages with complex characters, East Asian, etc.

%WM_IME_SETCONTEXT       = &H0281
%WM_IME_NOTIFY               = &H0282

I'm seeing the two above in my EDIT control.

Here's a link to MSDN:
Using an Input Method Editor in a Game
By Jack Lin, Software Design Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
December 2004

They didn't tell me about this when I signed up.