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CreateWindowEx shows chinese gibberish instead of original text

I have a problem. I wanted to document my tool development, so instead of mspaint-ing a date on top of screenshot, I wanted to make the window name carry the date and time data. But instead of the string I've got only chinese characters. Here is my…
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C++ Creating Window in other cpp files (not in WinMain)

I have a function that is located in a different cpp file than WinMain is, and when called will create a window. However the windows class for that new window was declared and registered inside of WinMain. Now, when I create the window in the…
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ES_NUMBER, ES_UPPERCASE and ES_LOWERCASE styles stopped working for Win32 API edit control

We have a very old ("legacy") VB6 code used to create the Windows edit control from scratch. It looks like this: Dim dwStyle As Long dwStyle = WS_CHILD Or ES_AUTOVSCROLL Or ES_AUTOHSCROLL Or ES_NUMBER Or ES_MULTILINE m_hwndEdit = CreateWindowExW(0,…
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C# creating a sticking windows on desktop with transperancy

Long title, but simple problem. I am trying to let a window stick to the destop (or pin), I can do this like this: [DllImport("User32.dll")] static extern IntPtr FindWindow(String lpClassName, String lpWindowName); …
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I want to receive messages on a thread other than the ui thread

I'm trying to create a function that detects software signals within a game. However, my thread is a separate thread from the UI thread and should not affect the UI thread. I've tested it by creating a message-only window and calling getmessage on…
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Win32 Window Creation - No Edge Cursors, or cursor hit along edges appears to extremely small

Yes, this is similar to a lot of posts, but none seem to fit. I have been doing this for decades, so I think I am missing some Windows 11 thing. Or, (most likely) I have simply forgotten how to Create Windows as it is not a common thing on large…
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window fails to initiate when specifying a custom class name registered with RegisterClass to CreateWindowEx but only the second time I do it

I'm creating a window that's supposed to contain buttons. When I create the first window (the container) I use a WNDCLASS to specify a WindowProc callback function to lpfnWndProc and it works as intended. When I do it the second time with a window,…
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Project Project1.exe raised exception class ERangeError with message 'Range check error'

I'm reading an old Delphi book on Windows API. This is an example from it. unit Unit1; interface uses Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics, Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms,…
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Struggling with the CreatWindow function

I am a beginner and I am trying to code my first game. I was following a tutorial that was made some time ago. This is my code: #include //Callback function LRESULT CALLBACK window_callback(HWND hwnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM…
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Creating static control with WS_EX_COMPOSITED fails

I'm writing a Windows program in C, and I have a static control which contains a graph that you can click and drag the mouse on to select a range. However, the selection range flickers while you're dragging the mouse around. I learned from Googling…
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Advantage of setting window data on WM_CREATE

According to Microsoft's docs, the way to set custom Window data is to pass it through the lpParam argument of CreateWindowEx, retrieve it within the window procedure on WM_CREATE, and then set it using SetWindowLongPtr. I was wondering why you'd…
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Button creation invalidating Direct2dFactory pointers Windows C++

I am writing a windows App in MS Visual Studio 2017 and having a little trouble using a Direct 2D Factory object and Buttons. It appears that if I create the direct 2D Factory object first a.k.a. run: HRESULT…
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Windows Script Host terminates when closing the created window

I created a wrapper function for CreateWindowEx API function and used it from a VBScript. This is the VBScript: Dim Result, wcx(10) 'VARIANT ARRAY(10) - WNDCLASSEX wcx(5) = WINAPI.WinAPI_LoadIcon(NULL, 32516) 'hIcon (IDI_INFORMATION) wcx(6) =…
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Drawing with SlimDX on window created by CreateWindowEX

What i want to do: Use CreateWindowEx to make a new transparent, fullscreen window. Pass the Handle to SlimDx Draw onto that window with SlimDX My current code: This is my CreateWindowEx Function: Handle =…
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CreateWindowEx fails with error 1407 CLASS_NOT_REGISTERED for the second instance of ActiveX

Hi I'm working on some legacy code - ATL ActiveX used as "installer" downloads files from the server for later installation. There is a "progress bar window" that works fine. The problem is when I start another instance of the ActiveX in the same…
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