Can anyone tell me what message I should be sending to the message queue in order to close a child window without closing the whole application?
Currently I am sending the WM_CLOSE message to the child window procedure but the whole application closes. Could I be including the incorrect window handle in the SendMessage command?
So, your SendMessage command looks like? If you just post that please give a list of you handles, at least which one is the main and which is the child window.
Use the DestroyWindow() API function, it sends the required WM_DESTROY and WM_NCDESTROY messages. If the window you are destroying has its own child windows, they are also destroyed.
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Sorry I am at work so don't have my code (I program for a hobby). Will post it once I have it.
WM_CLOSE is just a message. if your child window doesn't handle it, it won't do anything. DestroyWindow() needs to be called either where the child handles the WM_CLOSE that you sent or in the parent.
oops, looks like I just repeated after adrianxw. Oh well
