VC6 Add custom messages (the main window sends messages to child windows)

To send a message to a child window from the main window, you can add a custom message to the child window, and then you need a place to call the message in the main window.

Call Method:

1. Add the child window to the member variable of the main window;

2. The main window calls the message, the member variable name. SendMessage (um_progress);

child window Add custom message steps as follows:

1, define the message.

In Windows, all messages are represented by a specific integer value, and in order to avoid a custom message that conflicts with other messages that already exist, you should take advantage of a constant provided by Windows: Wm_user, which is less than the system-reserved. That is, the user-defined message is at least wm_user+1, noting that the value of the last message is not more than 0x7fff. When developing WINDOWS95 applications, Microsoft recommends that user-defined messages be at least wm_user+100, because many new controls also use Wm_user messages.

#define Um_progress Wm_user + 100

Adds the previous sentence to the header file (. h) of the child window class.

2. Declare the message handler function in the afx_msg block of the child window class header file:

Class Cmainframe:public cframewnd{

Protected

{{afx_msg (CMainFrame)

afx_msg int OnCreate (lpcreatestruct lpcreatestruct);

afx_msg void OnTimer (UINT nidevent);

afx_msg lresult OnProgress (WPARAM WPARAM, LPARAM LPARAM);

}}afx_msg

Declare_message_map ()

3. In the implementation file (. cpp) of the child window class, use the ON_MESSAGE macro directive to map messages to the message processing table.

Begin_message_map (CMainFrame, CFrameWnd)

{{Afx_msg_map (CMainFrame)

On_wm_create ()

On_wm_timer ()

On_message (um_progress, onprogress)/Note there is no semicolon at the back of this statement

}}afx_msg_map

End_message_map ()

4, the implementation of message processing functions. The function uses the Wpram and lparam parameters and returns Lpesult.

Lresult cmainframe::onprogress (WPARAM wparam,lparam LPARAM) {

CRect rect;

M_wndstatusbar.getitemrect (2,&rect); Get the pane area

Create a progress bar, note that the third parameter is cwnd* pParentWnd, select the parent form as appropriate

M_progress. Create (ws_child| ws_visible| pbs_vertical,rect,this,123);

M_progress. SetPos (50);

return 0;

}

5, in the appropriate time to send custom messages, for message processing. You need to pay attention to using SendMessage or postmessage for processing: SendMessage to return after the message is processed, and postmessage to return the message immediately after it has been placed in the message queue.

SendMessage (um_progress);

PostMessage (um_progress);

If the user needs a unique message for the entire system, you can invoke the SDK function RegisterWindowMessage and use ON_REGISTER_MESSAGE macro directives instead of On_message macros, and the rest of the steps are the same.

Turn from: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6bd15b910100nc00.html