Recent content by RGeorg

There is no generic API to perform actions in another app, i.e. to take over its message pump. A simple way of communication is by ::FindWindow API that uses a class name. It returns the handle to the app with that class name. You can then use WM_COPYDATA to transfer data to the app you want to...

Thanks, MAKEINTRESOURCE indeed was causing trouble. I ended up overriding CreateDialogParam to use the template handle with CreateDialogIndirectParam which yielded the proper result.

I am loading multiple language resources and the strings load properly. I am having a problem getting the dialog identifiers. Here is the code: Code: LPCTSTR get_dialog(int nResID) { LPCTSTR ptcBlock; HGLOBAL hg; HRSRC hResourceInfoBlock; LPCTSTR szTemplate = MAKEINTRESOURCE(nResID)...

Thanks, I think I'm in for a lot more surprises when other customer files show up.:-) I have installed Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and Korean. I set the font for the combo box in question to a font with most DONT_CARE parameters and I get a lot less squares (characters incompatible with...

Issue was resolved. The file we received from the Chinese customer had Korean characters that won't display correctly (or at all "???"):) in Chinese locale. Thanks for reading.

I have an urgent problem on my hands. I looked through the old posts but found nothing. When I build a list of names (WCHAR) in a ComboBox that include Simplified Chinese, the drop-down displays the chinese characters correctly. However when I select an item containing the said characters it...