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   From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Udo,   
      
   >> dialog window *doesn't* seem to have a "window ID" that can be set.   
   >   
   > GWL_ID   Sets a new identifier of the child window. The window cannot be   
   >  a top-level window.   
   > The words are clear.   
      
   Yep.  I assumed that as I could read from it I could write it too and didn't   
   read the docs for "Set" .   I was wrong. :-|   
      
   Though with that question I was thinking of "will changing it possibly   
   disrupt the functioning of that (sub-)dialog".   
      
   > If I would inform the parent or owner of a dialog, I would call a function   
   > of   
   > the object bound to its window handle,   
      
   You mean "objects" as one with methods, getters and setters ?    I'm not   
   sure what that "bound to" would look like.   But no, my main dialog is of   
   the common garden variety.   
      
   > or send or post an own message, a registered one,   
      
   I have thought about the latter, but considered it to be more cumbersome   
   than that it would be helpfull.  Both the sub-dialog and its parent   
   program/dialog its created by would need to do that* - and tear down   
   ofcourse, as its global (and I, only need it local).   
      
   *pointing to the very same string! :-)   
      
   I also considered the first one, to pick a few "random" messageID values,   
   and hope they do not overlap an already existing one.   
      
   Thats why I thought of using a notification message and the resource-ID I   
   hoped my dialog would have stored somewhere.   
      
   > or call a given call-back-function.   
      
   Possible too.  But than I have to make sure that that async call-back   
   doesn't clash with the rest of the program (having the message-loop   
   sequentialize all actions makes ones live easier)...   
      
   And I have to ask : is there a technical reason why I shouldn't use the   
   NM_NOTIFY message this way ?   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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