SetWindowWord

Syntax

WORD SetWindowWord(hWnd,nIndex,wNewWord)

This function changes an attribute of the window specified by the hWnd parameter.

Parameter Type/Description  

hWnd HWND Identifies the window to be modified.  
nIndex int Specifies the byte offset of the word to be changed. It can also be one of the following values:  
  Value Meaning
  GWW_HINSTANCE Instance handle of the module that owns the window.
  GWW_ID Control ID of the child window.
wNewWord WORD Specifies the replacement value.  

Return Value

The return value specifies the previous value of the specified word.

Comments

To access any extra two-byte values allocated when the window-class structure was created, use a positive byte offset as the index specified by the nIndex parameter, starting at zero for the first two-byte value in the extra space, 2 for the next two-byte value and so on.