Change form name

[Haakon Birkeland]

How do you change the caption on the titlebar after it was created?
My french interferes with the search keyword

Bert

[Haakon Birkeland]

Sorry finally found the proper key word. It is "SetWindowText, hwnd,"text". Second question going thru a few examples on PB's site "text" parameter has to be Asciiz or a regular string. It seems to work fine with regular strings but just wondering.

Bert

[TechSupport]

You can also use FireFly's built in function to change the caption of the Form. FireFly and Windows treats controls/forms as windows.

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FF_Control_SetText hWndForm, "My New Title"


[Haakon Birkeland]

Again looked thru the functions and didn't see that one. Will use FF's as I am not very familiar with api uses.

Bert

[Roger Garstang]

Usually PB doesn't put too much emphasis on it, but in memory I think when you store a regular string they allocate the length of it plus one and terminate it with a nul, so either method will work (For things you pass a value at least...not when the API gives your string a value unless you assign it something to make it the needed size since they are variable)