Hi, I wrote tinny "noter" too greet guys rooted by me It's also greets my sucky inet provider ICN But there're some things i want to change but don't know how

1. How to change background color and font in "edit" element ?
2. How to make this window to be "always on top" ?
3. How to make "edit" element unselectable ?
4. How to to select which element is "focused" when proggy starts ?

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1. Create font and send WM_SETFONT message to Edit Control.
2. Create window with WS_EX_TOPMOST extended style (you have to call CreateWindowEx) or (after window is created) you can togglw "always on top" style by calling SetWindowPos with HWND_TOPMOST parameter (look at win32.hlp for details).
3. Do you mean that user can't edit text in Edit (then just create it with ES_READONLY style)? Or that he can't select it with TAB key (in this case create it without WS_TABSTOP style).
4. call SetFocus with handle of element to be focused.

All of this APIs, messages and styles are well described in both win32.hlp and MSDN.

Hi, sorry of the noobism of mine but
1. How to send message to control ? I try
invoke PostMessage,[hwnddlg],WM_SETFONT,?,? <- where to put font handler and element id ?
2. Ok, thanks
3. Mine edit control allready ES_READONLY, i need that it can not be selected (i mean selection of the text)
4. Hm... How to set focus on element with that ?
HWND SetFocus(
HWND hWnd // handle of window to receive focus
);

P.S. Btw, forgot to ask, where is "return" macro ? (i put "pop ebp" instead of it in the code, 'couse new fasm don't know what is "return")

OK, now I understand that you created your dialog using CreateDialog or simiar API and you have to communicate with dialog item using their IDs.
So:

1.

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3. Proably you can't achive this with standard edit control, you have to subclass it (may be difficult) or handle EN_SELCHANGE notification (easier, but may not be what you actually want).

4.

Oh, thanks very much The last questions, in which way control messages arrive ? I mean, which event i mus handle for them ? WM_NOTIFY ? Or they arrive as-is (e.g. EM_SETSEL) ?

It is WM_NOTIFY message.
But, I looked at win32.hlp again, and it seems that EN_SELCHANGE applies only to RichEdit controls, so you can't use it with standard Edit. Anyway why do you need edit box with text that can't be selected? You can use static text instead.

Hm... Can't still get it 2 things ('ve tried almost all):
1. How to set color for edit control
2. How to kill focus from the button

1 - Capture the WM_CTLCOLOREDIT message and return handle of brush with given color, eg.
2 - SetFocus on something else

Tried this - doesn't work How to handle it's message ? Just like normal or as a part of WM_NOTIFY ?

it must be working
but you have to change 'call' to 'invoke' - CreateSolidBrush is an API call.
It is normal message, not send via WM_NOTIFY.

Here is the new code, all done as you said, but still doesn't work

Checked it, and noticed that readonly edit controls don't send WM_CTLCOLOREDIT message, and are always grayed. Seems that subclassing is an only option
BTW funny program

Ok, thanks for explaining