Translating Windows messages to strings

Delphi, dzLib 1 Minute

I could not find anything like this so I wrote it myself:

This class translates most Windows message ids into their symbolic name.

type
  TWmMessageToString = class
    function MsgToString(const _WmMsg: Cardinal): string; overload;
    function MsgToString(const _Msg: TMessage): string; overload;
  end;

The names are taken from

  • Delphi 2010’s messages.pas
  • Delphi 2010’s controls.pas
  • Wine

It seems pretty complete, but if a message cannot be found, the MsgToString methods return its hexadecimal and decimal representation.

The code is part of my dzlib its the u_dzWmMessageToString unit.

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