Using InternalGetWindowText Instead of Sending WM_GETTEXT when Drawing Window Captions

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Mon Feb 26 09:20:29 CST 2007


Robert Shearman <rob at codeweavers.com> writes:

> Hi Alexandre,
>
> A patch of yours from 2.5 years ago
> (http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commitdiff;h=b72994b6d4a04352e18934cd3fbe51749b7da234)
> changed the behaviour to not send WM_GETTEXT any more. My experiments
> on Windows show that WM_GETTEXT should be used. Can you remember what
> the reasoning behind the change in this patch was?

Probably to avoid potential deadlocks; I'm not sure there's one
correct way, IIRC Win2k doesn't send them but XP does. Do you have
something that depends on receiving them?

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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