Is it possible to...

[zeffy]

I was wondering, is it possible to change the default class name in an AutoIt program to something other than "AutoIt v3 GUI", without modding AutoItSC.bin, and if there is no other option, how?

[PsaltyDS]

No, you can't change the class of an existing window, and changing the class before it is created requires access to the code do it. That part of the AutoIt binary is not accessible to the user.

[zeffy]

That's lame :| I need to be able to change the class name for the project I'm working on.

[MvGulik]

Than you need to switch to a other code/language. Simple.

(Seems a other language was found, whiteout ditching AutoIt.)

Edited December 17, 2010 by MvGulik

[zeffy]

I am quite aware of that option, I have C# and AutoIt versions of this app, but conveniently neither language supports custom window class names (and I lost the source for the C# version anyway...).

I had an idea though, would it be possible to make a GUI with windows API through autoit? The reason I need a custom class name is so I can emulate the windows live messenger window to capture 'now playing' song information from media players.

EDIT: why didnt I think of this before? _WinAPI_CreateWindowEx(), duh.

Edited December 17, 2010 by zeffy

[PsaltyDS]

EDIT: why didnt I think of this before? _WinAPI_CreateWindowEx(), duh.

Good catch. I actually reviewed the WinAPI.au3 functions in the help file for this topic, but was looking for changes to an existing window, and so scanned right past that.

[James]