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Q103225: SmallCap.exe - Process Nonclient Msgs w/Msg Blaster Ctrl

Article: Q103225
Product(s): Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
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Keyword(s): kbfile kbsample kbvbp200
Last Modified: 13-JAN-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Visual Basic Standard Edition for Windows, version 2.0 
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SUMMARY
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Smallcap is a sample application created by Randall Kern and Jim Cash that
accompanies the "Message Blaster: Processing Messages in Visual Basic" technical
article on the MicrosoftDeveloper Network CD.

The Microsoft Visual Basic development environment is not based on a
message-driven programming model. Instead, Visual Basic supports a predefined
set of events for each object (form or control) that you create. An application
written in Visual Basic cannot respond to messages from Microsoft Windows(TM)
that are not handled directly by a Visual Basic event. The Message Blaster is a
Visual Basic control that addresses this restriction by allowing you to catch
and process Windows messages from Visual Basic.

You can use the Message Blaster control to process any message from Windows
except for WM_CREATE and WM_NCCREATE messages. The Smallcap sample application
shows how you can process WM_NC* (nonclient) messages to create captions.

Smallcap was built and tested under Microsoft Windows version 3.1 and Microsoft
Visual Basic version 2.0.

MORE INFORMATION
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The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download
Center:

  Smallcap.exe
  (http://download.microsoft.com/download/vb30/Sample22/1/W9XNT4/EN-US/Smallcap.exe)

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click
the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

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