The Message Map

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The plug-in window responds to various events by calling methods that are mapped to corresponding event messages. The wizard provides a mapping so that OnPaint and OnEraseBackground will be called at the appropriate times. To create the Search button and to respond to clicks from it, the message map section is modified as follows:

BEGIN_MSG_MAP(CPluginWindow)
    MESSAGE_HANDLER(WM_PAINT, OnPaint)
    MESSAGE_HANDLER(WM_ERASEBKGND, OnEraseBackground)
    MESSAGE_HANDLER(WM_CREATE, OnCreate)
    COMMAND_ID_HANDLER(IDC_SEARCH, OnSearch)
END_MSG_MAP()

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Implementing CPluginWindow