Question

I'm trying to make a window that closes when you click outside it, and at the moment I'm looking into doing that by handling the WndProc function.

None of the messages I'm getting so far seem useful, but there are a few I don't understand at all. What do codes 0x0118, 0xC123, 0xC128 and 0xC12E represent?

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Solution

0x0118: WM_SYSTIMER (undocumented) used for caret blinks

The other three should be application defined messages (anything in the range 0xC000 to 0xFFFF) so you won't find those defined anywhere.

OTHER TIPS

An easy way would be to just capture the mouse. When you have the mouse captured you get one click event outside your window, then capturing is turned off.

A harder way would be to set a low-level mouse windows hook. To do a global hook, you'll have to put your hook code in an unmanaged DLL.

A really easy way would be to just close your form when it's deactivated.

EDIT:

Oops. I just realized I didn't answer your direct question about the message IDs. Message 0x118 is not defined in winuser.h, so I assume it's an undocumented message ID. Message IDs in the range 0xC000 to 0xFFFF are application-defined messages. These IDs are returned by RegisterWindowMessage.

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