Re: Undocumented API

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From: Tom Esh (tjeshGibberish_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:10:13 -0400

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:36:58 +0530, "Spy Eyes"
<spyeyes2002in@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi
>The internet is boasting about some undocumented API exported from
>Shell32.dll to receive shell window notifications like window creation and
>activate and destroyed events. is there anybody who can tell me if this is
>true or not and if this is true how one can implement it and one more thing
>will it work even if we run our application as a shell and not as any other
>application......

Not sure what that "internet boasting is" is, but see the
documentation for the "SetWindowsHookEx" function, in particular the
WH_SHELL hook type.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/hooks/hookreference/hookfunctions/setwindowshookex.asp

-Tom
MVP - Visual Basic
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