Re: ICQ messengers unique idetification

From:

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:38:13 GMT

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"Sandipan Aich" <efextra@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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I was tyring to identify all the messengers uniquely through my VC++ code.
I made use of their class names.
But ICQ messenger is giving me a problem.
Its class name comes out to be same as that of my dialog box.
Its #32770.
so what can I do about it?
How can I be sure that the window on which my focus is,
is nothing but an ICQ messenger???

#32770 is the classname of a Windows dialog. You can use
GetWindowThreadProcessId to find the process id of the window, then use
ToolHelp to iterate running processes and find the id, then look at the
exename corresponding to that. Then at least you can tell if you have a
dialog of ICQ process. But not if that dialog is the main one you want or
maybe an Options dialog or some other dialog ICQ has. You can possibly look
at other criteria of the window (does it have a parent, what is the caption,
etc.) but nothing is foolproof with this.

-- David
http://www.dcsoft.com