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WM_UNDO vs EM_UNDO

September 11th, 2007

I was wondering – what’s the reason for some messages being prefixed with WM_ and others with EM_ ? The logic is opaque to me (especially looking at things like EM_UNDO vs. WM_UNDO).

Asked (over two years ago!) and answered.

Thanks Raymond!

Posted by Daniel Chait in General Development / Digg this / Comments Off

One Response to “WM_UNDO vs EM_UNDO”

  1. Kalani Thielen Says:
    September 11th, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    In case it wasn’t discussed already …

    As for the general question (EM_ versus WM_, but not EM_UNDO versus WM_UNDO specifically) the EM_ messages are commands for the standard edit control specifically. There are also BM_ commands for buttons (e.g.: send BM_CLICK to a button to simulate a button press), TVM_ commands for treeview controls, etc. Then there are *N_ messages (packed in the notify-message header of WM_NOTIFY messages) associated with events sent by particular controls (e.g.: BN_CLICKED when a button is clicked, TVN_BEGINDRAG when dragging a treeview node, etc).

    Crude, but less frustrating to work with than the myriad OLE/ActiveX COM interfaces that came afterward.