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From: Norbert_Unterberg@p4.f36.n245.z2.fidonet.org (Norbert Unterberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Creating a Button inside a child process
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Date: 3 May 91 09:46:00 GMT
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Reply-To: Norbert_Unterberg%p4.f36.n245.z2@hippo.dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Norbert Unterberg)
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Comment-To: dara_khani@f1.n6000.z2.fidonet.org (Dara Khani)


 > From: darak@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (dara khani)
 >
 >
 > I have a parent window which create a child process (a window).
 > In the child process procedure I have a WM_CREATE case which calls
 > the CreateWindow function to create a button:
 >  CreateWindow("button", "hi", WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_PUSHBUTTON,
 >                1,1, 30,30, hWnd, 1, hInst, NULL)
 >
 > Can someone tell me why this doesn't work in WM_CREATE part and works
 > in WM_PAINT.

Maybe the hInst is not yet valid, because you do a hInst = hInstance; in 
WinMain() after the CreateWindow() call for the child?

Gruss    Norbert