Re: EnumThreadWindows - EnumThreadWndProc does not get called

From:

"Ben Voigt" <rbv@nospam.nospam>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:09:24 -0600

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"Roland" <ajay.sonawane@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1165900831.513068.111860@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

Ok, thats fine,
So enumerating windows for MS Word is possible but getting menu handle
seems to be impossible. so the final outcome is "there is no generic
way of getting menu handle that works almost for every application".
its almost impossible ...Am I right ?

Depends on what you want to do... if you want to execute commands from the
menu, then most custom menus will still use WM_COMMAND. If you want to add
items, enable/disable or reorder items, you're out of luck. Custom menus
don't even have to have those capabilities at all.

thanks,
AJay

Doug Harrison [MVP] wrote:

On 8 Dec 2006 20:39:27 -0800, "Roland" <ajay.sonawane@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Well my first problem is
EnumThreadWndProc does not get even called when I tried it for
WinWord.exe. For Notepad and Win32 application, it did work well.
About standard menus of word, I really agree with you. But If I want to
find out the menu of any application , ther is no best and generic way
other than EnumThreadWndProc. What do I really need to do to get menu
of WinWord.exe ? Is there any trick that could solve my problem ?

There is no standard menu to get. I think your only hope of accessing the
command bar Word uses for a menu is through COM. Your example was almost
a
full console application, and when I made the necessary changes
(including
removing an extra argument to CreateProcess), I was able to run it
against
Word 2007. As expected, the GetMenu test failed, but EnumThreadWndProc
was
indeed called for Word.

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP