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Hi i'm trying to input a question in a window program. The box can either be pressed or not pressed but how do i find out what state it is in (pressed or not). I got some help from another web page but the example they gave me only let you tick the box and untick it:
//create a push button
CreateWindowEx(0, //more or 'extended' styles
TEXT("BUTTON"), //'class' of control to create
TEXT("PUSH BUTTON"), //the control caption
WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|BS_PUSHBUTTON, //control style: how it looks
10, //control position: left
50, //control position: top
200, //control width
30, //control height
hwnd, //parent window handle
NULL, //control's ID
hInst, //application instance


Please Help.
Thanks Jamazon

If you're creating a button with the above code, then it will send a WM_COMMAND message with the buttons id as the WPARAM whenever it's pushed. If you want to check for this then you'll have to give it an id when creating it -

CreateWindowEx(0, //more or 'extended' styles
TEXT("BUTTON"), //'class' of control to create
TEXT("PUSH BUTTON"), //the control caption
WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|BS_PUSHBUTTON, //control style: how it looks
10, //control position: left
50, //control position: top
200, //control width
30, //control height
hWnd, //parent window handle
(HMENU)1, //control's ID
hInst,0); //application instance

and then test for it being pushed with -

case WM_COMMAND:
switch(wParam)
{
case 1: //Do something
break;//etc
}

How do i know what state the button is in, toggled on non-toggled. The example above will work when you just press the button on or off, how do I do it so that it works only when the button is on?