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Subclassing means the control is of your 'custom type' where the functions in your class are available - not necessarily anything to do with drawing.<br />
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Owner drawn means just that - you draw it, all of it. &nbsp;The only message/events being responded to are painting events.<br />

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Subclassing means the control is of your 'custom type' where the functions in your class are available - not necessarily anything to do with drawing.

Owner drawn means just that - you draw it, all of it.  The only message/events being responded to are painting events.


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Hi AndyAinscow.<br />
So you say that a subclassed control gets all Windows messages, whereas an OwnerDrawn control only gets WM_PAINT?<br />
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Do you know of links to Win32 projects (not MFC) that show that?
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Hi AndyAinscow.
So you say that a subclassed control gets all Windows messages, whereas an OwnerDrawn control only gets WM_PAINT?

Do you know of links to Win32 projects (not MFC) that show that?

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&gt;&gt;Do you know of links to Win32 projects (not MFC) that show that?<br />
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No. &nbsp;But the principle would be the same in an MFC project.<br />

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>>Do you know of links to Win32 projects (not MFC) that show that?

No.  But the principle would be the same in an MFC project.


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And as for my other question/statement?<br />
can I safely say that an ownerdrawn control gets just wm_paint and a subclass gets all messages?<br />
In other words: a subclass is identical to ownerdrawn if I pass all but wm_paint to superclass?
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And as for my other question/statement?
can I safely say that an ownerdrawn control gets just wm_paint and a subclass gets all messages?
In other words: a subclass is identical to ownerdrawn if I pass all but wm_paint to superclass?

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I understand both techniques are used to change a control's behaviour, but I would like to know how they differ from one another in terms of Windows message processing and redirection.
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I understand both techniques are used to change a control's behaviour, but I would like to know how they differ from one another in terms of Windows message processing and redirection.

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