Cool. Thanks. Which thingo was it under? Like which section? -----Original Message----- From: Tom Kingston [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 9:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: how to know what to reclass controls as when encountered
The immediate mode window is a script developed by GW-Micro and can be downloaded from their App central web-site. It's a fabulous tool and it's free, as is all the other scripting apps. Just run the program you need to work with and pop up the Immediate mode window and you can dissect it to your heart's content as well as run chunks of VBScript or JScript code to see how it works. It's a priceless development tool. It's a good learning tool as well because it gives you immediate feedback on what you do. Regards, Tom On 11/26/2011 8:59 PM, Katherine Moss wrote: > Is that a mode you can open? I don't use WE much right now because it's kind > of pointless having to restart my computer every half an hour. I hope to > purchase it within the week though. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Kingston [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 7:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: how to know what to reclass controls as when encountered > > Just to add to what Chip said, sometimes, if you're lucky, a simple look at > the control in the immediate mode window will do the trick. I just opened a > program wherein I knew I had some good examples. And here's all I did. > 1. Focus the custom control. > 2. Open the Immediate mode window. > 3. Enter the following and note the result. > Print FocusedWindow.ClassName > sfppack2Bld1503TrackbarClass > From that I know it's just a custom track bar and reclass it as a track bar. > But this is the luck of the draw. Sometimes class names are informative or at > least give you a potential clue or hint as to what to try. > > Otherwise it's a matter of trying to figure the control out by evaluating its > functionality. And sometimes these custom controls look virtually no > different than their standard counterparts. So borrowing a pair of > knowledgeable eyes can sometimes reveal their secret. > > Good luck, > Tom > > > > On 11/26/2011 7:34 PM, Chip Orange wrote: >> Hi Katherine, >> >> I'm afraid you can't reclass unless you have a pretty good idea as to >> what it should be. >> >> If you're a scripter, you can use the various scripting tools to take >> a look at the control's name or class (which often gives you a hint >> as to what it's being used for), or the MSAA info log using the WE >> Event app might tell you something. >> >> If you're not a scripter, then you are usually left to trial and >> error (and a lot of the time, you have to set it back to "original" >> because whatever you chose is worse than what it was doing). >> >> Sorry it's not easier than that, but if it is, I'm afraid I don't >> know about it. >> >> Chip >> >> >> _____ >> >> From: Katherine Moss [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 7:19 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: how to know what to reclass controls as when encountered >> >> >> >> Hello all, >> >> I was fooling around a few weeks ago with the WCF >> service configuration editor (a tool in the Windows SDK that I will >> need in future development endeavors), and I realized that some of >> the controls were custom according to WE, so I made an attempt at >> reclassing them. I reclassed them as buttons not knowing what they >> were actually supposed to be, and whatever I did, that seemed to make >> them all disjunct and unreadable. WE could read them, but it sounded >> like Gibberish rather than English. What is the first step when trying to >> reclass a control in figuring out what it should be? >> Thanks guys. >> >> >> >> Katherine Moss, >> >> Administrator of the AccessCop Network, previously Raeder24.org. >> Visit us on the web at http://raeder24.org<http://raeder24.org/> >> >> >> >> > >
