Thread: Problems processing WM_NCCREATE

Ok, im not really having problems processing the WM_NCCREATE message, but if i trap it instead of WM_CREATE my window is created without a title. Is there some reason for it? I didnt change anything but WM_NCCREATE to WM_CREATE and now the window has a title again, but if i change it back to WM_NCCREATE there is no title. Any suggestions?

Well isnt that a bad idea? Because according to MSDN you should return TRUE if your application handles the WM_NCCREATE message, so wouldnt letting it fall through to DefWindowProc be bad?

>>because according to MSDN you should return TRUE if your application handles the WM_NCCREATE message, so wouldnt letting it fall through to DefWindowProc be bad?

I would say that you are not handling the default actions of the handler for WM_NCCREATE.......

Code:

case WM_NCCREATE: 
	lpCreateStruct = (LPCREATESTRUCT) lParam;
            SetWindowText(hwnd,lpCreateStruct->lpszName);
	return TRUE;

I see your problem and so tried coding the above.....

Now with this code, the window name will appear...I must warn you though that I am not sure if any other tasks are performed by the default handler for this message......therefore it may develop a few bugs.....try it though

So, should I just do what Sorensen suggested and just let it go to the DefWndProc after I get what I need done?

No, im just stopping it to grap my this pointer and throw it into the window's user data using SetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_USERDATA, (LONG)lpcs->lpCreateParams). nothing less nothing more, so I just returned defwindowproc and now it works, thanx guys.