Re: Using InternalGetWindowText Instead of Sending WM_GETTEXT when Drawing Window Captions

[Alexandre Julliard]

Robert Shearman  writes:
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> A patch of yours from 2.5 years ago
> (http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commitdiff;h=b72994b6d4a04352e18934...)
> changed the behaviour to not send WM_GETTEXT any more. My experiments
> on Windows show that WM_GETTEXT should be used. Can you remember what
> the reasoning behind the change in this patch was?

Probably to avoid potential deadlocks; I'm not sure there's one
correct way, IIRC Win2k doesn't send them but XP does. Do you have
something that depends on receiving them?