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4/8/2010

This function retrieves a data handle identified by a specified character string from the property list of a specified window.

Syntax 

HANDLE GetProp(
  HWND 
hWnd,
  LPCTSTR 
lpString
);

Parameters

hWnd

[in] Handle to the window for which you want to retrieve a data handle from the property list.

lpString

[in] Pointer to a null-terminated character string that identifies the data handle, or an atom that identifies the string. If this parameter is an atom, the application must create the atom by using the GlobalAddAtomfunction. The application must place the atom, a 16-bit value, in the low-order word of the lpStringparameter; the high-order word of lpStringmust then be zero.

Return Value

The data handle associated with the specified string indicates that the property list contains the string. NULL indicates that the property list does not contain the string.

Remarks

The application must add the string and handle to the property list by previously calling the SetPropfunction.

Requirements

Header windows.h
Library coredll.lib
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE .NET 4.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also