A customer had a dialog box with a bunch of edit controls.
Some of these edit controls contained floating-point values,
and the code parses them by calling a locale-sensitive parser,
so that users in the United States (say) can use the period as the
decimal marker, whereas users in Germany can use the comma.
The user might change the locale settings from US-style
to Germany-style,
and the customer wants to handle this change by updating
the text in all of the edit controls to match the new locale settings.
The customer decided that the way to do this was to handle the
WM_SETTINGCHANGE message,
and the customer concluded that they could get everything to work
if only they could cajole every edit control into generating
a EN_UPDATE notification when this happened.
The existing handling for this message would finish the work.
(I don't quite see how, but that's what they said.)
The literal answer to the question is that you can just send
the EN_UPDATE notification yourself.
void SendFakeEnUpdateNotification(HWND hwndEdit)
{
FORWARD_WM_COMMAND(
GetParent(hwndEdit), GetDlgCtrlID(hwndEdit), hwndEdit,
EN_UPDATE, SendMessage);
}
You can find all the edit controls by enumerating them.
void GenerateFakeEnUpdateNotificationsForChildWindows(HWND hdlg)
{
EnumChildWindows(hdlg, [](HWND hwnd, LPARAM lParam)
{
auto hdlg = reinterpret_cast<HWND>(lParam);
wchar_t className[10];
if (GetClassName(hwnd, className, 10) == 4 &&
CompareStringOrdinal(className, -1,
L"edit", -1, TRUE) == CSTR_EQUAL) {
FORWARD_WM_COMMAND(
hdlg, GetDlgCtrlID(hwndEdit), hwndEdit,
EN_UPDATE, SendMessage);
}
return TRUE;
}, reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(hdlg));
}
This enumerates all the child windows, picks out the edit controls,
and generates a fake EN_UPDATE notification
on their behalf.
But you can do better.
For example, instead of sending a fake EN_UPDATE
notification, you may as well just go straight to the code that handles
the notification.
If your dialog procedure says
case WM_COMMAND:
switch (GET_WM_COMMAND_ID(wParam, lParam)) {
// These three edit controls are the ones that
// contain decimal values.
case IDC_VALUE1:
case IDC_VALUE3:
case IDC_VALUE5:
switch (GET_WM_COMMAND_CMD(wParam, lParam)) {
case EN_UPDATE:
OnEditUpdate(GET_WM_COMMAND_HWND(wParam, lParam));
break;
...
}
break;
...
}
...
}
then you can just call your OnEditUpdate
method directly.
void TriggerEditUpdateChildWindows(HWND hdlg)
{
EnumChildWindows(hdlg, [](HWND hwnd, LPARAM lParam)
{
auto hdlg = reinterpret_cast<HWND>(lParam);
wchar_t className[10];
if (GetClassName(hwnd, className, 10) == 4 &&
CompareStringOrdinal(className, -1,
L"edit", -1, TRUE) == CSTR_EQUAL) {
OnEditUpdate(hwnd);
}
return TRUE;
}, reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(hdlg));
}
In fact, you can do even better still.
As written, we're overloading the EN_UPDATE
notification, which means that the
OnEditUpdate message needs to decide what
got updated, and detect that this was just a fake update for the
purpose of updating the decimal separator.
Why not just call that function directly?
void TriggerEditUpdateChildWindows(HWND hdlg)
{
EnumChildWindows(hdlg, [](HWND hwnd, LPARAM lParam)
{
auto hdlg = reinterpret_cast<HWND>(lParam);
wchar_t className[10];
if (GetClassName(hwnd, className, 10) == 4 &&
CompareStringOrdinal(className, -1,
L"edit", -1, TRUE) == CSTR_EQUAL) {
UpdateDecimalSeparator(hwnd);
}
return TRUE;
}, reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(hdlg));
}
Wait, you can do even better still.
You already know which three edit controls you need to update:
They're
IDC_VALUE1,
IDC_VALUE3,
and
IDC_VALUE5.
So you can just update them.
void UpdateDecimalSeparators(HWND hdlg)
{
static const int editsWithDecimals[] = {
IDC_VALUE1, IDC_VALUE3, IDC_VALUE5 };
for (int id : editsWithDecimals) {
UpdateDecimalSeparator(GetDlgItem(hdlg, id));
}
}
In fact, it's highly likely that you already obtained
these child window handles and have stashed them away
in member variables.
void UpdateDecimalSeparators(HWND hdlg)
{
UpdateDecimalSeparator(m_hwndValue1);
UpdateDecimalSeparator(m_hwndValue3);
UpdateDecimalSeparator(m_hwndValue5);
}
There you go.
No need to generate a fake notification
(that may confuse other parts of your program).
If you want to update the decimal separator in three
edit controls, then just
update the decimal separator in three edit controls.