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From: risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Window Handles: what's real?
Keywords: windows, microsoft, handle
Message-ID: <1181@tuura.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 91 07:32:26 GMT
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Organization: Nokia Data Systems Oy
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whisd@sersun1.essex.ac.uk (Whiteside S D B) writes:

>When I use a CreateWindow call, my window's message function gets called
>with one of the parameters being hWnd.
>When the CreateWindow call returns it gives me the hWnd for the window
>just created.
>BUT... these two handles are different! Which is the real one?
>I've tried both, and both seem to work. Why does a window need TWO handles?

Hi!

They're probably the same handle in locked and unlocked format.  So it is,
if their difference is 1 (and the odd hWnd is greater than the even hWnd).

Terveisin: Risto Lankinen
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