Windows Start Button Text Editor

[bluehairman]

I will be asking for this to be removed. It is horribly sloppy, and causes an infinite loop. The program doesn't return anything to the system, the window is hidden for no apparent reason.. theres goto's all over the place, which cause the loop.. and the loop appears to set the Start button text over and over and over again.

PLEASE.. PLEASE, if you want to add something to the codebank.. make sure its not flawed horribly.

chem

Ok, I don't mind if its removed, but the loop is there for a reason, because if remove the loop, or goto's when you click the system tray arrow it will just say "start" again and won't change back. And I only used to goto because I didn't know what else to do at the time.

And if you want to look at it as sloppy, I'll update it.
Hope this fits your requirements.

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int startchange(char *message)
{
        HWND StartButton = GetDlgItem(FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", NULL), 0x130);
        
        SendMessage(StartButton, WM_SETTEXT, NULL, (LPARAM)message);

        return 1;
}

int main()
{
    
    char message [6];
    
        printf("Please type in your message for start button text.\n");
        cin >> message;
    
    while (1)
    {
               startchange(message);
    }
    
    return 0;
    
}

I reduced the amount of code, the unnecessary includes, and got ride of goto's.