What is Message Reflection ? How could you accomplish the above task using message reflection?

Usually, message is handled in the parent class that means you have to override message handler for each parent. Sometimes it is nice to handle a message in the control itself, without parent invocation. Such handling mechanism is called message reflection. Control “reflects” message to itself and then processes it. Use ON__REFLECT macro to create a reflected message.

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