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From: roper@june.cs.washington.edu (Michael Roper)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WM_* message order
Message-ID: <7310@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 89 07:29:22 GMT
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Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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Mark Divittorio writes:

> Does anyone know the order of messages sent when windows creates 
> and activates a window.  What order do ACTIVATE, FOCUS, CREATE etc. 
> get sent in ?
> 
> Any info out there ?

Sure -- it's called symdeb.  Set a breakpoint on the window proc and
inspect the args on the stack.  You should have a hardcopy of windows.h
handy so you can decode the message numbers.

Mike Roper