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Re: Changing window title & PM's compressed bitmaps

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From: Larry Salomon Jr.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:57
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In <1992Oct11.163011.8231@news.tu-graz.ac.at> tom@piassun1.joanneum.ac.at (Tom Leitner) writes:


>Hi fellow programmers,                                      Graz, 11.10.92

>I got two (almost:-) short PM programming question:

>1.) I want to modify the window title of the main window of my application
>    using the following code in my ClientWindowProc:

>               DosPostEventSem(hevStartMeasuring);
>               sprintf(WindowTitle, "%s -- measuring", szAppName);
>               WinSetWindowText(hwnd, WindowTitle);

>    but this simply refuses to change the title. I already tried to
>    use the HWND handle returned by the WinCreateStdWindow call in main()
>    but no avail.

Try WinSetWindowText(WinQueryWindow(hwnd,QW_PARENT),WindowTitle) (add a 
",FALSE" after "QW_PARENT" if this is a 16-bit call).

Cheers,
Q
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From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Changing window title & PM's compressed bitmaps
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Date: 12 Oct 92 13:57:21 GMT
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