Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a way to foward messages that a form
receives to another application form.
I was thinking i could override WndProc, but i don't know how to
forward any messages to another application?!
Any ideas greatfully appreciated (in advance!).
James Randle.
7  3232  pi**********@ho tmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a way to foward messages that a form
receives to another application form.
I was thinking i could override WndProc, but i don't know how to
forward any messages to another application?!
Any ideas greatfully appreciated (in advance!).
James Randle.
You can forward messages by using SendMessage or PostMessage from the
Win32 API. Check pinvoke.net for the signatures.
Hello James,
Redirecting all of the messages that a form receives might not be a good
approach of what you would like to accomplish because messages such as
WM_PAINT contain information about that particular form's invalidated region.
If you still would like to do it, you can use the Win32 API SendMessage to
send the received message and its related parameters to another HWND -- the
handle to the desired window. You can find it using FindWindow if you know
its title and/or class name.
The P/Invoke signature for SendMessage and FindWindow can be found at http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32.SendMessage and http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32.FindWindow. Remember to include
the System.Runtime. InteropServices namespace to the file where you include
these functions' definitions.
You will have to override WndProc and make a call to SendMessage:
SendMessage(m.H Wnd, m.Msg, m.WParam, m.LParam);
I hope this helps you.
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Best regards,
Stanimir Stoyanov ad***@nospam.st oyanoff.info
"pi**********@h otmail.com" wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a way to foward messages that a form
receives to another application form.
I was thinking i could override WndProc, but i don't know how to
forward any messages to another application?!
Any ideas greatfully appreciated (in advance!).
James Randle.
Thankyou both for you rapid replies.
Stanimir, thanks for pointing out the 'unwanted' events. Presumably i
can just process these in WndProc as per normal?
Thanks again :-)
Yes, you can check if the Msg ID is one of these and simply not redirect them.
--
Best regards,
Stanimir Stoyanov ad***@nospam.st oyanoff.info
"pi**********@h otmail.com" wrote:
Thankyou both for you rapid replies.
Stanimir, thanks for pointing out the 'unwanted' events. Presumably i
can just process these in WndProc as per normal?
Thanks again :-)
Hi again,
I've managed to get all the messages forwarding to a different
application window (notepad for simplicity), but they dont seem to be
processed properly. I can see them getting there in Spy++.
For instance, if i click on my form in the region that represents the
other applications mainmenu region, nothing happens!
Do i need to send the messages to different child windows depending on
their location? And if so, how can i get a handle to the menu?
So many questions!!
Again, thanks in advance.
Stanimir Stoyanov wrote:
Yes, you can check if the Msg ID is one of these and simply not redirect them.
--
Best regards,
Stanimir Stoyanov
ad***@nospam.st oyanoff.info
"pi**********@h otmail.com" wrote:
Thankyou both for you rapid replies.
Stanimir, thanks for pointing out the 'unwanted' events. Presumably i
can just process these in WndProc as per normal?
Thanks again :-)
>I've managed to get all the messages forwarding to a different
>application window (notepad for simplicity), but they dont seem to be
processed properly. I can see them getting there in Spy++.
You can't just blindly forward window messages to another application
and expect it to work. Many message parameters contain pointers and
handles that will be invalid in the other process.
>For instance, if i click on my form in the region that represents the
other applications mainmenu region, nothing happens!
Do i need to send the messages to different child windows depending on
their location? And if so, how can i get a handle to the menu?
If you want to fake input in another application there are other APIs
to use.
Mattias
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Mattias,
Cheers for replying. Do you have any ideas what these APIs are?
James
Mattias Sjögren wrote:
I've managed to get all the messages forwarding to a different
application window (notepad for simplicity), but they dont seem to be
processed properly. I can see them getting there in Spy++.
You can't just blindly forward window messages to another application
and expect it to work. Many message parameters contain pointers and
handles that will be invalid in the other process.
For instance, if i click on my form in the region that represents the
other applications mainmenu region, nothing happens!
Do i need to send the messages to different child windows depending on
their location? And if so, how can i get a handle to the menu?
If you want to fake input in another application there are other APIs
to use.
Mattias
--
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http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/ | http://www.dotnetinterop.com
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