create window for "RichEdit20A" problem

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vbVeryBeginner

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Posts: 884
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vbVeryBeginner 03 Nov 2004, 03:24

hi,
this should be simple, but i just can't figure out why the rich edit cannot be created?

Code:

section '.data' data readable writeable
  ctlDllNameRe2   db 'riched20.dll',0
       ctlClsNameEdit  db 'EDIT',0
       ctlClsNameRe2   db 'RichEdit20A',0

library had been successfully loaded

Code:

invoke       LoadLibrary,ctlDllNameRe2

in the WM_CREATE message part

Code:

wmCREATE:
              invoke  CreateWindowEx,WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,ctlClsNameEdit,NULL,\
                      WS_VISIBLE or WS_CHILD or ES_MULTILINE or WS_VSCROLL or WS_HSCROLL,\
                       CW_USEDEFAULT,CW_USEDEFAULT,CW_USEDEFAULT,CW_USEDEFAULT,\
                  [hWnd],100,[insH],0
                 cmp  eax,NULL
                       jne  @f
             invoke  MessageBox,NULL,wndTitle,wndTitle,MB_OK
             @@:
                     mov  [re2H],eax
             invoke  CreateWindowEx,WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,ctlClsNameRe2,NULL,\
                       WS_VISIBLE or WS_CHILD or ES_MULTILINE or WS_VSCROLL or WS_HSCROLL,\
                       CW_USEDEFAULT,CW_USEDEFAULT,CW_USEDEFAULT,CW_USEDEFAULT,\
                  [hWnd],101,[insH],0
                 cmp  eax,NULL
                       jne  @f
             invoke  MessageBox,NULL,wndClsName,wndClsName,MB_OK
         @@:
                     jmp  wmBYE

the ordinary EDIT control could be created and no message pop up for wndTitle, but message pop up for the wndClsName which notifies that NULL was returned for the ctlClsNameRe2!

did i miss anything? or ... ? i think it is weird.

03 Nov 2004, 03:24

vbVeryBeginner

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vbVeryBeginner 03 Nov 2004, 07:41

hi,
i found the solution but it looks quite weird and i don't know why!

Code:

        invoke  LoadLibrary,ctlDllNameRe2 ; --------------------> Line A
 invoke  CreateWindowEx,0,\
         wndClsName,wndTitle,\
              WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW + WS_VISIBLE,\
         CW_USEDEFAULT,CW_USEDEFAULT,400,240,\
              NULL,NULL,[insH],NULL
               mov  [wndH],eax
     invoke  LoadLibrary,ctlDllNameRe2 ; --------------------> Line B

window_message_loop_start:
....

ideally, the api LoadLibrary whether invoke from Line A or Line B should work as expected because the return value is NOT NULL but somehow, if we invoke LoadLibrary after we invoke CreateWindowEx, the below code then won't work! CreateWindowEx would return NULL.

Code:

wmCREATE:
              invoke  LoadLibrary,ctlDllNameRe2 ; --------------------> Line C
         invoke  CreateWindowEx,WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,ctlClsNameRe2,0,\
                  WS_CHILD + WS_VISIBLE + ES_MULTILINE + WS_VSCROLL + WS_HSCROLL,\
                   0,0,0,0,\
                  [hWnd],200,[insH],0
                 cmp  eax,NULL
                       jne  @f
             invoke  MessageBox,NULL,wndTitle,wndTitle,MB_OK
             @@:
                     mov  [re2H],eax
                     jmp  wmBYE

Line A and Line C would works as expected but not Line B
maybe it is a bug on my windows 95?

03 Nov 2004, 07:41

vid
Verbosity in development

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Posts: 7105
Location: Slovakia

vid 03 Nov 2004, 09:42

well, this is the feel of true windows coding - you do it other way than showed in M$ examples and it doesn't work even if it should due to documentation. It is even bigger fun with directX.

03 Nov 2004, 09:42

crc

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Posts: 637
Location: Penndel, PA [USA]

crc 03 Nov 2004, 12:10

Quote:

well, this is the feel of true windows coding - you do it other way than showed in M$ examples and it doesn't work even if it should due to documentation.

Vid is very accurate on this: I spent several hours working to get my Win32 console programs working under all versions of Windows, only to discover that the documentation and the implementation details don't always match up Sad

They don't make life easy for us assembly programmers.

03 Nov 2004, 12:10

vbVeryBeginner

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vbVeryBeginner 04 Nov 2004, 03:19

maybe there should be a site contained information on weird windows api! if it is weird, i guess it should be bug :p

04 Nov 2004, 03:19

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