: Hello here,
:
: i wonder if there's somebody who can help me out. By clicking on
: XP's Start button i'd like to open up my own menuform (called
: menu_frm). I know how to find the start button's hwnd just need to
: act on the leftbutton click and disable opening up the default
: menu... any help on this?
:
: Thnx
:
I *think* this would involve setting up your own messageloop. You have the window handle of the button, so you can use SetWindowLong API to set it's Window Procedure address to your custom Window Procedure. In it, you check if the message is a click. If it is, handle it the way you want.
If it's not, pass along the message to the original Window Procedure for the Start Button.
Atleast, that's the theory ;) I don't think SetWindowLong is a function of the .NET framework, so you're probably going to have to use API's. It requires some trial and error to get it programmed, but it should be do-able. Also, I expect you might want to handle more event than just the click for 'beauty' reasons - but you'll see after you've implemented the click override whether this is neccesary or not.
Have fun and if you need any further help (like with steeling the Window Procedure) let us know.
Best Regards,
Richard
The way I see it... Well, it's all pretty blurry
