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  1. Aug 9th, 2002, 09:23 PM #1
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    How can I send messages to other apps?

    Let's say I want to hide a process or I want to change it's window mode (normal, minimized, etc)... How can I do this?
    I've been searching for it but I couldnt find anything so far.

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  2. Aug 10th, 2002, 07:02 AM #2
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    I was trying to do something similar. I could'nt find a way to do it in .NET, so I had to use the API.
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  3. Aug 10th, 2002, 06:17 PM #3
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    Originally posted by DevGrp
    I was trying to do something similar. I could'nt find a way to do it in .NET, so I had to use the API.
    But there HAS to be a way!!!!!!!!
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  4. Aug 12th, 2002, 03:38 PM #4
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    anyone?
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  6. Aug 12th, 2002, 08:08 PM #5
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    u mean like those msn addons and sc hacks?
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  7. Aug 12th, 2002, 09:29 PM #6
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    Originally posted by Aerials
    u mean like those msn addons and sc hacks?
    well dunno exactly....never used any of them
    Well let's say I want to hide an app/minimize it or whatever... I need to send a message to it.... I could do it in vb6 with some APIs but I'de like to aviod APIs if possible
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  8. Aug 13th, 2002, 09:22 AM #7
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    Do you mean to change the window state of a program you wrote or someone elses?
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  9. Aug 13th, 2002, 03:27 PM #8
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    Originally posted by Matt02
    Do you mean to change the window state of a program you wrote or someone elses?
    someone elses
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  11. Aug 15th, 2002, 09:36 AM #9
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    I've been looking and it seems you could process the windows message stack to send and recieve messages in .net, problem is I don't know how you could determine the handle of other windows in .net. So I think you are going to have to use api calls.
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  12. Aug 15th, 2002, 01:56 PM #10
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    Originally posted by Matt02
    I've been looking and it seems you could process the windows message stack to send and recieve messages in .net, problem is I don't know how you could determine the handle of other windows in .net. So I think you are going to have to use api calls.
    REALLY!? how?! tell me!!!!!!! PLZ!

    I'm using processes and I can get the handle of it with Process.Handle ()....tell me how you do it
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  13. Aug 18th, 2002, 03:17 AM #11
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    Sorry about that, I was wrong. You can process the windows message stack to recieve messages, but it looks like microsoft dosen't want you to be able to send messages to the message stack using .net since its a little bit of a security risk.
    Oh well, looks like you have to use the sendmessage api call.
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