Month Calendar Control: MCN_GETDAYSTATE Value Mismatch on Vista+ Systems

[JoseRoca]

While working with the Month Calendar control in FreeBasic, I discovered that the MCN_GETDAYSTATE notification does not fire on modern Windows systems—even when the control is created with the MCS_DAYSTATE style.

After extensive debugging, I traced the issue to a mismatch in the value of MCN_GETDAYSTATE defined in FreeBasic’s headers.

The Problem:

FreeBasic currently defines:
const MCN_GETDAYSTATE = culng(MCN_FIRST + 3) ' Resolves to -743

However, on Windows Vista and later, the correct value is:
MCN_GETDAYSTATE = culng(MCN_FIRST - 1) ' Resolves to -747

This silent shift causes WM_NOTIFY handlers to miss the message entirely, even though the control is sending it.

To resolve this, I have needed to override the constant manually:

#undef MCN_GETDAYSTATE
#define MCN_GETDAYSTATE culng(-747)

Placing this after including commctrl.bi, the notification fires as expected and day state logic works properly.

I hope this bug is fixed so other users don't have any headaches.

Thanks in advance.

[JoseRoca]

The mistake comes from the MinGW headers, that define #define MCN_GETDAYSTATE (MCN_FIRST+3) instead of #define MCN_GETDAYSTATE (MCN_FIRST-1).