Custom window class

[Lknt]

Hello all,

I found out that there is something called the "window class" which is not the title of the window, but some sort of coding name, if you know the "class" of any window you can easily hide that window, change the text on its title bar, etc. from your vb program just by using a few APIs to retrieve the handle of the specified window and then do whatever you want the program to do. However I have found out that the "window class" of all the programs I make with vb6 is always the same (ThunderRT6FormDC), but then if I have more than one of my programs open at the same time, it becomes an issue determing how to choose the right one. Does anybody have any idea how to customize this "window class" or some other way to solve my problem?

Thanks a lot in advance!

[HanneSThEGreaT]

If you use the FindWindow API, you could simply supply both parameters, meaning :

The class name
And the Window's caption

Most of the time, that should be sufficient, as the caption helps separate the different ThunderRT6FormDC windows.

You could, however, use the CreateWindow API along with the RegisterClass, CreateWindowEx, SetWindowLong w/ GWL_STYLE, GWL_EXSTYLE, GWL_WINPROC, APIs to create your own windows from scratch - That is the only way that you could assign a different class name to your apps