Chapter 5 Messages Overview

This chapter describes groups of related Microsoft Windows messages. Each section states the purpose of the message group, lists the messages in the group, and describes each message. Some of the sections contain additional information. See Chapter 1, “Window Manager Interface Functions,” for an explanation of sending and receiving messages.

This chapter lists the following categories of Windows messages:

Window-management messages

Initialization messages

Input messages

System messages

Clipboard messages

System-information messages

Control messages

Notification messages

Scroll-bar messages

Nonclient-area messages

Multiple document interface messages