[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your answer.
Yes, this is exactly what I want to acomplish.
Application i'm working on is going to be called from that menu. Plan is to attach it automatically to some apps through running service or some process.
This seems like a silly thing to do. What menu are you going to insert
yourself in? As a Windows user, I do not expect to access third-party
applications via the standard menus in other applications. There are
better ways to do that. If you need an application to be easily
available at any time, the right thing to do is to set up a keyboard
shortcut. For example, I wrote a "while you were out" application for
our office that we all use for taking telephone messages. I create the
icon with a shortcut of Alt-Shift-W, and now I can bring it up at any
time, no matter what application is currently running.
I red a lot about hooking WinApi but I don't realy know C that much. Writing a
simple DLL sounds really easy.
Well, I wouldn't say it's "easy". It's not a lot of code, but it is
tricky code. You always have to remind yourself that "this function is
running in someone else's process." That means, among other things, you
can't use malloc and free, because you don't know what run-time library
is available.
How do you mean subclassing a window and overtwritting windowproc can be done
in python ?
What *I* said was that it could NOT be done in pure Python, but I was
expecting Mark Hammond or Tim Golden to contradict me in such a
pessimistic statement. ;)
A group at the University of North Carolina has developed several Python
packages for automating access to and control of other Windows
applications. You might take a look through here:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/developer.shtml
Their pyAA package seems to allow you to intercept events from another
window. However, that still won't allow you to modify their menus. For
that, I'm still convinced you'll need a C application.
I think you could do what you need with a WH_MSGFILTER hook. This gets
called every time a menu event happens (among other places). You would
figure out whether the message was for a menu that was opening, and if
it was, add yourself to the menu, and subclass the window. Then, when
the menu closes, you could undo the subclass and remove yourself from
the menu.
--
Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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