I was wondering how Windows applications typically keep track of dirty controls in a dialog, so that when the user clicks a button like "Apply" or "Save," the application knows which controls' values to commit.
I see that edit controls have an EM_GETMODIFY message, which will tell you whether the contents of the edit control have been modified, but I don't think that type of message is available for other controls like date-time pickers or combo boxes.
So I suspect that this would be done by monitoring change notifications sent from the controls to the parent dialog. But if that's the case, how might the change events be flagged or stored? I thought that perhaps that whenever a change occurs, the application could store the control's ID or hwnd in a std::unordered_set, and then iterate through the set when it's time to commit. Or is there another, more accepted and efficient way? Thank you for any guidance.