what's with WS_OVERLAPPED?

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 "Medland, Bill" <Bill.Medland at accpac.com> wrote
>
>> On Wednesday, August 14, 2002 Ove Kaaven [mailto:ovehk at ping.uio.no]
wrote:

<snip>

>> WS_OVERLAPPED is in practice considered the absence of the
>> WS_POPUP and
>> WS_CHILD flags, I believe.
>
>Thanks Ove; that'll do for a working hypothesis.  (I wish Microsoft would
be
>consistant)
>
>Just for the record it is clearly more complex than that.  I guess since
>Microsoft wrote it we can trust Spy++ a little.  I have seen spy++ declare
>that a "tooltips" class window (style 0x84800000/00000088) has style
>WS_OVERLAPPED whereas a "tooltips_class32" class window (style
>0x84800003/00000088) doesn't.

Hmm, this is just a wild guess but couldn't it be that the WS_OVERLAPPED
style applies only to the lower word of the windows style. Windows coming
from 16bit DOS it wouldn't be surprising if the original windows style was
16 bit only as well. Either that or Spy++ has a bug, even though you trust
it so much ;-).

Rolf Kalbermatter
mailto:rolf.kalbermatter at citeng.com