I've been trying to use the FindWindowA api and also the FindWindowEx api in a little VB.NET 3.5 app and it doesn't appear to work. I get a positive long value returned whether I have an open window with the correct title or not. Anyone else noticed this?
View 1 RepliesIm trying to make findwindow but it dosent work for me why ?
If FindWindow("NOTEPAD") Then
MsgBox("The window does not exist.")
Else
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i searched all over this forum , and everywhere its the same, [code]i keep getting "found" even when the calculator is off!
View 6 Repliesi am trying to figure out how to go about finding this window's label when the control name is the same as all the other labels on the program.
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How would I use FindWindow to get the handle to a textbox on my form?
View 5 Repliesi am trying to figure out how to go about finding this window's label when the control name is the same as all the other labels on the program.
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All 3 labels are named the same. The one i am most interested in is a progress % counter (1%, 2%, 3%, etc..)How can i get the value (using a timer of course) from that label without knowing the caption of it at any given time?
Is it possible to use a "FindProcess" instead of FindWindow?
View 2 RepliesI've been using the FindWindow API for some time now, and it seems as if the function opts for an Windows Explorer window before any other window with the same window title.
For example, if you have a folder named Calulator open, along with the Calculator application built into Windows, FindWindow will return the handle to the folder every time.
I just thought this was an interesting occurrence, and I was wondering whether anyone knew if this is the case every time (an Explorer window over any other window) when using the FindWindow API.
Am trying to detect if a window is running, the result always returns a rather large number instead of 0 and I'm not sure why. All documentation I've read states this is right.
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32.dll" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Dim ClassName As String = vbNullString
Dim WindowName As String = "some fake window"
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but is there a way to search for a single process without using a For statement?
I just can't seem to get this right, what I'm trying to do is use FindWindow to find the windows of more than one window. Here is the code:
app_hwnd = FindWindow(vbNullString, CheckedListBox.CheckedItems)The thing is, if I use .SelectedItem, it only finds one window and if i use CheckedItems/SelectedItems it gives me an error: "Value of type 'System.Windows.Forms.ListBox.SelectedObjectCollection' cannot be converted to 'String'."
So right now, I'm confined to using FindWindow for only one window--when I want to do it for more than one window.
Does anybody know what is the equivalent of findwindow or findwindex in vb.net. Here is what I am trying to do. I am reading a Real Time Adherence window that is dynamic(assumption) and is constantly refreshing. I have tried Findwindow and Findwindowex although I am able to get to the MDIclient and then to the window there is no "edit" field for me to read off. I have tried Spy++ and it also sees it but it does not have an available control for me to read the information.
View 5 RepliesI am developing an application that reads an MDI applications child window and grabs the information from a control such as a textbox or listbox. I have tried to use Findwindow in order to accomplish this. I have gotten all the way to the control, but once I get there it returns blank. Can anyone point me in the right direction to accomplish this.I am able to read the window title and get the control title but when I send a message to the window it returns 0. Now I am just experimenting so I have no concrete code, but here is a snippet.
Some of the code I have gotten online.
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I need to send two keys (" " and {Enter}) to a security warning in an Acrobat Window from a VB.NET application. Here is the function I use :
Private Sub SendAcroKey()
Dim HWND As IntPtr
HWND = FindWindow("Adobe Acrobat", vbNullString)
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But I can't get FindWindow() to work properly, it always returns "0". I guess I'm not giving the good parameters, lpClassName and lpWindowName, but I dont now how to get the right ones. So here is the question : How can I know the lpClassName and lpWindowName of a security warning in Adobe Acrobat 7 professional ???
I really have to work this out but theres not much information on the web about those function, even on MSDN.
use API return a handle by FindWindow
Public Class Form1
Private Shared Function FindWindow( _
ByVal lpClassName As String, _
ByVal lpWindowName As String) As IntPtr
End Function
'....
End Class
My question, what value should be passed into Function FindWindow(lpClassName, vbnullstring)? Can I use "Form1"?
If i use this, it will give me the handle of the window "Test Window 1.0"
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but what if the caption of the window changes? how do you find it? If it change to "Test Window 2.0" ? Program like Explorer caption always changes.
I supposed they should return the same values but oddly when I tried it I am getting different results?
View 4 RepliesI have spent the last 3 hours trying to figure this out with no success:The WIndows XP phone dialer has a "Hide Calls" available from the context menu, can someone run Spy++ (or similar) over it and let me know what message i should be looking out for to fire the "hide calls" option. Also, do i send it to the child ("Preview") or the parent ("Phone Dialer")
View 1 RepliesThis same (Identical ) code works well in another program but does not in windows service... Returns 0 for window handle ...?
Public WindowStr As String = "ImagSrvWindow"
Protected Overrides Sub OnStart(ByVal args() As String)
'necessary to get control to paint Pic&Txt boxes in stream of Browser navs
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I am using VB Express 2008, on Windows XP Pro. I have written a programme which tests another programme which compares prices and terms from several vendors. This Bid Tabulation programme, compares prices and terms of up to 10 Bidders and 500 line items in mixed currencies.The testing programme, initially, would not work and I discovered that I needed to introduce a delay in order for it to run the Bid Tabulation programme. So my initial code, using the delay, was:
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And the button was clicked, and the Bid Tabulation programme started and ran successfully, as long as the number of vendors was 5 and the number of line items was 5. when I tried to increase the number of vendors to 10, the programme failed.I then discovered that at the point of failure, when the particular ParentHWND=0, if I introduced:
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Does anyone know what I am doing wrong, or whether there is another way to assure that ParentHWND will not equal zero without using a time delay?
I just bought a nice G15 Gaming Keyboard. It has a nice LCD screen with media keys (Play, Stop, Next, Previous etc,).Anyway, I managed to intercept the original functions to WMP of it (By Global Hotkeying them).Now, I have to send mouse clicks to my own Music Player (Playa!TraX, it isn't my creation) on a specific coord.This is the code i have, it finds the window, and says it clicks, but nothing happens, what am I doing wrong?
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal Hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal wMsg As Integer, ByVal wParam As Integer, ByVal lParam As Integer) As Integer
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I'm calling the following method from a button click event to export a datatable to excel. After the export is completed, the excel application object is quit, released and assigned to nothing. But in reality it's not getting released and stays active unless the entire application is closed. So every time the button is clicked for export, a new excel application object keeps on running. The problem doesn't occur if two of the lines from the method below are not used. But I can't omit them as they are really needed. Check the * marked lines.
Code:
''' <summary>
''' Exports data from a datatable to excel.
''' </summary>
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How to change the frame rate in Visual Basic 2008 Media Player? I have error: System.NullReferenceException was unhandled Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. IS there any way to fix this? Here's My Code
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Where in Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition Software program do you specify a specific installation directory for a program?
c:Program Filesfinished program
I want to publish my program to try it out on another system and I want to ensure its installed in the directory structure I want.
i'm running Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition (latest service pack ... 9.0.30729.1 SP) on XP Pro SP3 with .Net Framework version 3.5 SP1 I have a rather large project I've imported from Visual Studio 2003 (Standard).The project compiles and runs just fine ... my compiled program itself never crashes.
But while I actually have the code up in the IDE, and simply adding/deleting code the whole IDE will randomly crash (usually without warning) and I loose my changes since last save.If/when I do get some hint of why it crashed, I get a window about illegal whitespace or something.... but that's rare ... usually it just crashes without warning and the whole IDE completely shuts down instantly. just deleting/adding a character is enough to trigger it maybe once every 30 minutes.
This is on a computer that is otherwise very rock solid .... no other program ever crashes, etc.
Is it possible to edit the Windows Form Designer generated code in VS2008?
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View 2 Repliesthis event works ok, but the problem is that I don't know what field was clicked. Should I use objectinfo or something else? VB.net won't recognize for example e.objectinfo.
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