windows messages and descriptions

[Fred Harris]

I'm not sure what others use but I've stuck with my MSDN disks that came years ago with Visual Studio 6. When I open that up there are four tabs, e.g., Contents, Index, Search, and Favorites. If I select 'Search' and type in WM_ like Michael said I get a whole list. Huge! I don't know how helpful it would be really having some kind of tabular setup. Some of the messages are pretty simple, others somewhat complex. When you find yourself needing one that is somewhat unusual or complicated, you usually need to open up the documentation on it and study it rather carefully, pretty much by itself. I imagine I'm like most people, and use a very, very small percentage of them.

[Michael Mattias]

No, I'm talking about my 2002 edition on CD.. the subscription I terminated because it had changed from very useful to a piece of .. detritus.

But the Win32.hlp file should be here for download somewhere. That'll work.

[Chris Holbrook]

Yo, I just tried this with the WIN32API.HLP file you can download here. You can do the same thing with the index.. type in "WM_" and there's the whole list!

Do you mean using the Document Explorer? I can see the message identifiers, but also need a functional description of each message. Can you see this, if so, how did you get there? Are we both looking at "Platform SDK Collection for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1"?

[Michael Mattias]

May or may not be a good option, but...

I think you can probably still download the SDK, or maybe subscribe to it (it's 5 CDs so it's probably a fair size download). That has in index in it where you can just type in "WM_" and all the messages are right there on the screen.

This info might be out of date. I terminated my subscription a few years ago, because the updates I was getting seemed to be "all .NET all the time" and it was hard to find the stuff I was interested in.

But it's probably worth a look.

[LATER]

Yo, I just tried this with the WIN32API.HLP file you can download here. You can do the same thing with the index.. type in "WM_" and there's the whole list!

(Now that I know is not the latest and greatest, but it's a real nice first step!)


MCM

[Chris Holbrook]

POFFS

Yes, there's a list posted by Jim Huguley, but it doesn't have descriptions. BTW I have better luck with Explorer searches than POFFs. While the stuff is still online.

[Cliff Nichols]

I am fairly positive I saw this in POFF's from Börje Hagsten

I always use this tool in conjunction with the PB Forum search (Just so I do not miss something before asking an already answered question.)

I often thought about expanding on the code, but never got around to it. Although its a heck of a starting point

[Chris Holbrook]

I'm looking for a table of windows messages and associated descriptions, something that can be cut and pasted easier than working though MSDN, any ideas?