kcvinu Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 Hi all, For last few weeks, i am in search of some good articles about windows messages and notifications. I am reading Charles Petzold's Windows Programming 5th edition in google books. Since the prize of that book costs nearly my two day's wages, i am depending google books. Then i wandered a lot of websites for gathering articles. Atlast i found a tool on MSDN site. Name is Control Spy. At first i thought that it is like the WindowInfo tool in AutoIt. But no, it is an incredible tool for a develepor. We can learn more about the behaviour of window controls and their messages and notifications. This is the linkhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4635 After installation, go to the directory and there is a word document. Read and learn more about how a windows control behaves. Trong and TheDcoder 2 Reveal hidden contents My Contributions Glance GUI Library - A gui library based on Windows api functions. Written in Nim programming language. UDF Link Viewer --- A tool to visit the links of some most important UDFs Includer_2 ----- A tool to type the #include statement automatically Digits To Date ----- date from 3 integer values PrintList ----- prints arrays into console for testing. Alert ------ An alternative for MsgBox MousePosition ------- A simple tooltip display of mouse position GRM Helper -------- A littile tool to help writing code with GUIRegisterMsg function Access_UDF -------- An UDF for working with access database files. (.*accdb only)
TheDcoder Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 Thanks for the link! P.S You posted this in the Help & Support forum, I already reported your thread to be moved to the appropriate forum kcvinu 1 EasyCodeIt - A cross-platform AutoIt implementation - Fund the development! (GitHub will double your donations for a limited time) DcodingTheWeb Forum - Follow for updates and Join for discussion
kcvinu Posted January 21, 2016 Author Posted January 21, 2016 @TheRealDcoder You are welcome. Oops ! i didn't think about that. When i found this, i am in glory mood. So i posted here in the next second. Reveal hidden contents My Contributions Glance GUI Library - A gui library based on Windows api functions. Written in Nim programming language. UDF Link Viewer --- A tool to visit the links of some most important UDFs Includer_2 ----- A tool to type the #include statement automatically Digits To Date ----- date from 3 integer values PrintList ----- prints arrays into console for testing. Alert ------ An alternative for MsgBox MousePosition ------- A simple tooltip display of mouse position GRM Helper -------- A littile tool to help writing code with GUIRegisterMsg function Access_UDF -------- An UDF for working with access database files. (.*accdb only)
TheDcoder Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 On 1/21/2016 at 9:35 AM, kcvinu said: Oops ! i didn't think about that. When i found this, i am in glory mood. So i posted here in the next second. Expand It happens kcvinu 1 EasyCodeIt - A cross-platform AutoIt implementation - Fund the development! (GitHub will double your donations for a limited time) DcodingTheWeb Forum - Follow for updates and Join for discussion
kcvinu Posted January 21, 2016 Author Posted January 21, 2016 These type of programs are really helpful for learners. It helps us to understand the under the hood things of windows. Now i remember the python visualizer website. It was a great help for me when i started learning programming. I have started with python. When it comes to "For" loop, i was totally strucked. My study method was self study. Since i am not very well in English, i got struck. After a few days, i was happen to visit python visualizer site. The site will visualize each line or python code and displays the result of each line. After 5 minutes, i got very clear picture about loop. That's the benefit of these kind of programs. Reveal hidden contents My Contributions Glance GUI Library - A gui library based on Windows api functions. Written in Nim programming language. UDF Link Viewer --- A tool to visit the links of some most important UDFs Includer_2 ----- A tool to type the #include statement automatically Digits To Date ----- date from 3 integer values PrintList ----- prints arrays into console for testing. Alert ------ An alternative for MsgBox MousePosition ------- A simple tooltip display of mouse position GRM Helper -------- A littile tool to help writing code with GUIRegisterMsg function Access_UDF -------- An UDF for working with access database files. (.*accdb only)
TheDcoder Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 @kcvinu Yeah, sometimes tools like this are very helpful kcvinu 1 EasyCodeIt - A cross-platform AutoIt implementation - Fund the development! (GitHub will double your donations for a limited time) DcodingTheWeb Forum - Follow for updates and Join for discussion
kcvinu Posted January 21, 2016 Author Posted January 21, 2016 Yeah @TheRealDcoder . Last day, i was playing with a treeview control. I need to get the item text when i click the item. So i have used $TVN_SELCHANGEDW notification message. After a few tweekings, i got the result but the code is working twice. Atlast the help of Danyfirex, i found a solution, but when i got this tool, i got more clearer picture about what happens when user clicks on the treeview. So now i am using the $NM_CLICK and my code works perfect. Reveal hidden contents My Contributions Glance GUI Library - A gui library based on Windows api functions. Written in Nim programming language. UDF Link Viewer --- A tool to visit the links of some most important UDFs Includer_2 ----- A tool to type the #include statement automatically Digits To Date ----- date from 3 integer values PrintList ----- prints arrays into console for testing. Alert ------ An alternative for MsgBox MousePosition ------- A simple tooltip display of mouse position GRM Helper -------- A littile tool to help writing code with GUIRegisterMsg function Access_UDF -------- An UDF for working with access database files. (.*accdb only)
TheDcoder Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 @kcvinu Maybe we should compile a list of useful programs for AutoIt Programmers/Scripters? What do you think? kcvinu 1 EasyCodeIt - A cross-platform AutoIt implementation - Fund the development! (GitHub will double your donations for a limited time) DcodingTheWeb Forum - Follow for updates and Join for discussion
kcvinu Posted January 21, 2016 Author Posted January 21, 2016 (edited) Good Idea.. First we need to make a list. Edit - And we need to search about a good window info tool. Edited January 21, 2016 by kcvinu Reveal hidden contents My Contributions Glance GUI Library - A gui library based on Windows api functions. Written in Nim programming language. UDF Link Viewer --- A tool to visit the links of some most important UDFs Includer_2 ----- A tool to type the #include statement automatically Digits To Date ----- date from 3 integer values PrintList ----- prints arrays into console for testing. Alert ------ An alternative for MsgBox MousePosition ------- A simple tooltip display of mouse position GRM Helper -------- A littile tool to help writing code with GUIRegisterMsg function Access_UDF -------- An UDF for working with access database files. (.*accdb only)
TheDcoder Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 @kcvinu I will start a PM & discuss the rest there, lets not pollute this thread further kcvinu 1 EasyCodeIt - A cross-platform AutoIt implementation - Fund the development! (GitHub will double your donations for a limited time) DcodingTheWeb Forum - Follow for updates and Join for discussion
kcvinu Posted January 21, 2016 Author Posted January 21, 2016 OK Reveal hidden contents My Contributions Glance GUI Library - A gui library based on Windows api functions. Written in Nim programming language. UDF Link Viewer --- A tool to visit the links of some most important UDFs Includer_2 ----- A tool to type the #include statement automatically Digits To Date ----- date from 3 integer values PrintList ----- prints arrays into console for testing. Alert ------ An alternative for MsgBox MousePosition ------- A simple tooltip display of mouse position GRM Helper -------- A littile tool to help writing code with GUIRegisterMsg function Access_UDF -------- An UDF for working with access database files. (.*accdb only)
junkew Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 controlspy is almost 10 years old and not sure how you can use this for all .NET stuff See some references here I collected till about 2012 http://ewildsch.home.xs4all.nl/testautomation.htm Nowadays on windows I would use the IUIAutomation stuff (see examples section) as that covers most things you do with control spy To complete your post Control spy Spy Exposes the Clandestine Life of Windows Common Controls, Part I http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0798/controlspy.aspx Control Spy Exposes the Clandestine Life of Windows Common Controls, PartII http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0998/control/control.aspx Spy Exposes the Clandestine Life of Windows Common Controls, Part III http://www.microsoft.com/msj/1298/controlspy3/controlspy3.aspx API Hooking http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/2082/API-hooking-revealed kcvinu and Gianni 2 FAQ 31 How to click some elements, FAQ 40 Test automation with AutoIt, Multithreading CLR .NET Powershell CMDLets
kcvinu Posted January 24, 2016 Author Posted January 24, 2016 @junkew , Wow... Great. That page looks like a treasure for me. Thank you for the link. Let me read it. Anyways, i am completely ignorant about IUIAutomation. Now i am reading Petzold's book for understanding how windows controls work. Some guys in Stack Overflow says that it is the cannonical reference of Win32 API. Reveal hidden contents My Contributions Glance GUI Library - A gui library based on Windows api functions. Written in Nim programming language. UDF Link Viewer --- A tool to visit the links of some most important UDFs Includer_2 ----- A tool to type the #include statement automatically Digits To Date ----- date from 3 integer values PrintList ----- prints arrays into console for testing. Alert ------ An alternative for MsgBox MousePosition ------- A simple tooltip display of mouse position GRM Helper -------- A littile tool to help writing code with GUIRegisterMsg function Access_UDF -------- An UDF for working with access database files. (.*accdb only)
kcvinu Posted January 24, 2016 Author Posted January 24, 2016 (edited) @junkew , Among those links, these links are not working Check the type library wrapper A VB API reference with easy declare sub/functions of the win32 api Edited January 24, 2016 by kcvinu Reveal hidden contents My Contributions Glance GUI Library - A gui library based on Windows api functions. Written in Nim programming language. UDF Link Viewer --- A tool to visit the links of some most important UDFs Includer_2 ----- A tool to type the #include statement automatically Digits To Date ----- date from 3 integer values PrintList ----- prints arrays into console for testing. Alert ------ An alternative for MsgBox MousePosition ------- A simple tooltip display of mouse position GRM Helper -------- A littile tool to help writing code with GUIRegisterMsg function Access_UDF -------- An UDF for working with access database files. (.*accdb only)
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