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How can I access the menu and all controls of the window of a foreign application


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I want to disable the menu bar and all controls of the window of an external application. Afterwards I want to re-enable a few really needed ones.

Is there a simple way to get a list of all controls of a window (similar to FileFindFirst()/FileFindNext()) so I can simply loop through all controls and disable them?

Is there any way to control the menu bar of an external application, like hiding/disabling it completely or disabling only selected menu entries?

Currently my only idea is to disable the whole window and build a GUI for the needed controls that exactly overlays the external window, and let it forward user inputs to the controls of the disabled window. But to me this approach seems to be a little bit too inconvenient.

Any ideas, preferrably of low programming effort and as general as possible?

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Look at Auto3Library and its A3LMenu.au3 with lots menu functions.

Thanks, that is quite a good start! It solves every issue related with the menu bar.

But I couldn't find a function in that toolbox, that retrieves a list of all controls in a window. Do you have a solution for that, too?

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But I couldn't find a function in that toolbox, that retrieves a list of all controls in a window. Do you have a solution for that, too?

Not directly, but you can get all the control classes used with WinGetClassList() and then increment through the ClassNameNN's.

For example take the class name Edit and loop ControlGetPos() on the sequence Edit1, Edit2, etc. until you get an error for non-existent control.

There are several examples of this already posted on the forum.

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