---
name: "InitCommonControlsEx"
section: "3w"
platform: "linux"
package: "libwine-dev"
version: "1.4.1-4"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/InitCommonControlsEx"
---

# InitCommonControlsEx(3w)

## NAME

**InitCommonControlsEx** (COMCTL32.@)

## SYNOPSIS

BOOL InitCommonControlsEx\
  (\
   const INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX\* *lpInitCtrls*\
  )

## DESCRIPTION

Registers the common controls.

## PARAMS

*lpInitCtrls* **\[In\]**  pointer to an **INITCOMMONCONTROLS** structure.

## RETURNS

**Success:** **TRUE**

**Failure:** **FALSE**.

## NOTES

Probably all versions of comctl32 initializes the Win95 controls in DllMain during dll initialization. Starting from comctl32 v5.**82** all the controls are initialized there. We follow this behaviour and this function is just a dummy.

**Note:** when writing programs under Windows, if you don't call any function from comctl32 the linker may not link this **DLL**. If InitCommonControlsEx was the only comctl32 function you were calling and you remove it you may have a **FALSE** impression that InitCommonControlsEx actually did something.

## IMPLEMENTATION

Declared in **"commctrl.h"**.

Implemented in **"dlls/comctl32/commctrl.c"**.

Debug channel **"commctrl"**.