help: sendmessage function

[John C]

llee wrote:
> I'm trying to call the SendMessage function as defined in the windows api.

Because there's no such function. It's SendMessageA (the SDK headers 
define SendMessage as a macro).

> Unfortunately every attempt to call it results in an error.
> Initially I tried calling the function directly assuming that it would have been
> imported into my applications namespace after: 
> " import std.c.windows.windows; "
> this failed. So I tried:
> " extern (Windows) void SendMessage (HWND, uint, WPARAM, LPARAM); "

Try this
	extern(Windows) LRESULT SendMessageA(HWND hWnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM 
wParam, LPARAM lParam);
or for the Unicode version use
	extern(Windows) LRESULT SendMessageW(HWND hWnd, UINT wMsg, WPARAM 
wParam, LPARAM lParam);


> this got the problem past the compiler, but generated an error during linkage.
> At this stage I'm open for alternatives.
> I'm trying to update a client window after my program processes WM_CHAR
> messages. I was trying to use the SendMessage function to trigger WM_PAINT
> events. 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> thanks, 
> lee
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