CREATESTRUCT Structure

The CREATESTRUCT structure has the following form:

typedef struct tagCREATESTRUCT {
   LPVOID    lpCreateParams;
   HANDLE    hInstance;
   HMENU     hMenu;
   HWND      hwndParent;
   int       cy;
   int       cx;
   int       y;
   int       x;
   LONG      style;
   LPCSTR    lpszName;
   LPCSTR    lpszClass;
   DWORD     dwExStyle;
} CREATESTRUCT;

The CREATESTRUCT structure defines the initialization parameters passed to the window procedure of an application.

Members

lpCreateParams

Points to data to be used to create the window.

hInstance

Identifies the module-instance handle of the module that owns the new window.

hMenu

Identifies the menu to be used by the new window. If a child window, contains the integer ID.

hwndParent

Identifies the window that owns the new window. This member is NULL if the new window is a top-level window.

cy

Specifies the height of the new window.

cx

Specifies the width of the new window.

y

Specifies the y-coordinate of the upper-left corner of the new window. Coordinates are relative to the parent window if the new window is a child window; otherwise coordinates are relative to the screen origin.

x

Specifies the x-coordinate of the upper-left corner of the new window. Coordinates are relative to the parent window if the new window is a child window; otherwise coordinates are relative to the screen origin.

style

Specifies the new window’s style.

lpszName

Points to a null-terminated string that specifies the new window’s name.

lpszClass

Points to a null-terminated string that specifies the new window’s Windows class name (a structure; for more information, see the Win32 SDK documentation).

dwExStyle

Specifies the extended style for the new window.

See Also   CWnd::OnCreate