Is it possible to transate the wParam parameter into the actual message string?

Question

I am trying to get the actual system messages that are represented by the intergers returned in the wParam property of the message. Is there anyway to do this or a function that can achieve this?

Answer 1

Is this is a question about WndProc? Which message are you talking about?

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND p_hwn,UINT p_msg,WPARAM p_wparam,LPARAM p_lparam)

The WParam is generally used to send flags or info attached to a windows message, it doesn't tell you what the message is.

The message id (p_msg) tells you what message it is e.g. 'WM_CHAR', 'WM_KEYDOWN' etc? Is it these you are after? If so you can download an enumeration here (C# but easy to convert):

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/cswindowsmessages.aspx

Or of course just look in the C++ windows headers.