Creating a Button inside a child process

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From: Norbert Unterberg
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 09:46

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 > From: darak@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (dara khani)
 >
 >
 > I have a parent window which create a child process (a window).
 > In the child process procedure I have a WM_CREATE case which calls
 > the CreateWindow function to create a button:
 >  CreateWindow("button", "hi", WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_PUSHBUTTON,
 >                1,1, 30,30, hWnd, 1, hInst, NULL)
 >
 > Can someone tell me why this doesn't work in WM_CREATE part and works
 > in WM_PAINT.

Maybe the hInst is not yet valid, because you do a hInst = hInstance; in 
WinMain() after the CreateWindow() call for the child?

Gruss    Norbert

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