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templatetypedef
templatetypedef

Reputation: 372664

SetWindowLongPtr with DialogBoxParam?

A while back I was writing a C++ program with the Win32 API that would display a dialog box and then listen to the messages it generated. At one point, I was interested in associating a piece of data with the dialog window. Were I manually creating the window and attaching a window proc, I'd just use SetWindowLongPtr to set the GWLP_USERDATA field to a pointer to the data to associate. However, in this case I was creating and displaying the window with DialogBoxParam, and it wasn't clear whether this function was associating that data with its own internal state. Since the MSDN didn't have a description of what would happen in this case, I ended up using some other approach to solve the problem.

My question is this - is it safe to use SetWindowLongPtr to overwrite the GWLP_USERDATA value in a window created by DialogBoxParam?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1386

Answers (1)

Chris Becke
Chris Becke

Reputation: 36016

Technically, the GWLP_USERDATA is for the use of the (base in the case of subclassing) window class to use. Because dialogs are a ready made class, GWLP_USERDATA is for internal use - whihc is why dialogs supply a DWLP_USER field for your DialogProc implementation's use.

As things stand however, all the internal window classes supplied by Microsoft - EDIT, BUTTON, Dialog and so on, do not, and cannot use GWLP_USERDATA for application compatibility reasons, so they are effectively available for the application to use.

Upvotes: 2

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