About Notification Messages

HTML Help notification messages are sent from a help window to the window that you specify in an HtmlHelp() call. Use notification messages to track a user's activities in a help window. For example, if you want to invoke an action when a user clicks the Refresh button on the toolbar, you could use the HHN_TRACK message.

Notification messages occur for the following events:

To enable notification message tracking

HTML Help sends notification messages from help windows that have the following HH_WINTYPE property settings:

To specify the window that will receive notification messages

Notification messages are sent to the window specified in the hwndCaller parameter of the HtmlHelp() call.

HTML Help notification messages are sent via Windows WM_NOTIFY messages.

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Notification messages quick reference


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