Sending text to button after adding image c++ - c++

Question

I am able to add image to the button as background but later I want to add text to the button as "Weclome", I tried all possible ways using Settext, SendmessageA.
please help
#include <Windows.h>
int main()
{
MSG msg;
HWND hWnd = CreateWindow(TEXT("button"), TEXT("START"), WS_VISIBLE | WS_POPUP | WS_CHILD | WS_TABSTOP | BS_BITMAP,
250, 250, 500, 500, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
HANDLE hImg = LoadImageW(NULL, L"Untitled.bmp", IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0, LR_DEFAULTCOLOR | LR_DEFAULTSIZE | LR_LOADFROMFILE);
SendMessageW(hWnd, BM_SETIMAGE, IMAGE_BITMAP, (LPARAM)hImg);
SendMessageA(hWnd, WM_SETTEXT, 0, (LPARAM)"Welcome");
//SendMessageW(hWnd, WM_SETTEXT, (WPARAM) 256,NULL);
while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
{
ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_SHOW);
UpdateWindow(hWnd);
TranslateMessage(&msg);
DispatchMessage(&msg);
}
return (int)msg.wParam;
}

Answer 1

You do realize you have to create a window and then put the button inside the window?
Chances are the program is looking for a file in the wrong directory. Use full path names and do error checking to make sure the bitmap is loaded. Example:
HANDLE hImg = LoadImageW(NULL, L"c:\\fullpath\\Untitled.bmp", IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0,
LR_DEFAULTCOLOR | LR_DEFAULTSIZE | LR_LOADFROMFILE);
if (!hImg)
report error...
Don't put ShowWindow and UpdateWindow in the message loop. Just show the window and then call the message loop. Example:
ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_SHOW);
UpdateWindow(hWnd);
while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
{
TranslateMessage(&msg);
DispatchMessage(&msg);
}