Synaps3 Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 I've never dealt too heavily with Windows internals. To what extent can I alter another program's controls? I remember a long time ago I used to be able to use Spy++ to get the handle of a control and then use that to play a screen saver on the control on XP. I just tried it on 7 and it doesn't seem to work, but maybe I forgot. I know this is a very general question, but I want to know if for example, I can change the background color of a control in another application or maybe set a background image. I've always wanted custom background images in things like notepad and the command prompt. Is it possible? A long time ago I was somewhat familiar with SendMessage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nine Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/window-controls Look under a specific control for the list of messages. Some messages cannot be send between threads. I have just tested how to set an icon to a button in an other application from a AutoIt script and it is working alright under Win7. “They did not know it was impossible, so they did it” ― Mark Twain Spoiler Block all input without UAC Save/Retrieve Images to/from Text Monitor Management (VCP commands) Tool to search in text (au3) files Date Range Picker Virtual Desktop Manager Sudoku Game 2020 Overlapped Named Pipe IPC HotString 2.0 - Hot keys with string x64 Bitwise Operations Multi-keyboards HotKeySet Recursive Array Display Fast and simple WCD IPC Multiple Folders Selector Printer Manager GIF Animation (cached) Screen Scraping Multi-Threading Made Easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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