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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: A puzzling query
Message-ID: <106580029@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 89 18:12:32 GMT
References: <227@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> Now I think both HWND and HDC are 16 bit addresses but shouldn't the compiler
> spit this out as a parameter order error?  An enquiring mind would like
> to know......

Unfortunately, a handle is a handle is a handle is a handle is....

[From windows.h:

    typedef WORD HANDLE;
    typedef HANDLE HWND;
    typedef HANDLE HDC;

So, as far as the compiler is concerned, *any* handle is equivalent....]

--Bill Turner