What I'm trying to do is steal a window from the screen and make it a child of my own created window. When my program closes, the stolen windows goes away too, probably along with its process.
So here are my questions:
- The created window is frozen, it won't let me operate its controls. Does the console prevent it from being operated? If so, how can I fix this?
- (code below) only steals the window on its second run, it doesn't do it in the first run and the window is still left in the taskbar.
- I tried doing the same except I've stolen a Chrome window into a notepad window. Same problems and when it did stole the window, everything looked completely torn apart, rendering the browser virtually inoperable.
Here's the code I used (Win32 Console Application):
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <winuser.h>
LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);
LPCWSTR sClassName = L"MyClass";
HWND CreateTheWindow(LPCWSTR WindowTitle) {
// Create & register the class
WNDCLASSEX WndClass;
WndClass.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX); WndClass.style = NULL; WndClass.lpfnWndProc = WndProc;
WndClass.cbClsExtra = 0; WndClass.cbWndExtra = 0; WndClass.lpszClassName = sClassName;
WndClass.hInstance = NULL; WndClass.hIcon = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
WndClass.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); WndClass.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW+1);
WndClass.lpszMenuName = NULL; WndClass.hIconSm = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
RegisterClassEx(&WndClass);
// Create & show the window
HWND hwnd = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_STATICEDGE, sClassName, WindowTitle, WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,
CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, 320, 240, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_SHOW); UpdateWindow(hwnd);
return hwnd;
}
// No idea what's this for, back in JS we simply had to do window.open
LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT Message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) {
switch(Message) {
case WM_CLOSE: DestroyWindow(hwnd); break;
case WM_DESTROY: PostQuitMessage(0); break;
default: return DefWindowProc(hwnd, Message, wParam, lParam);
}
return 0;
}
// start
void main()
{
HWND chrome = FindWindow(L"Chrome_WidgetWin_1", NULL);
HWND mywin = CreateTheWindow(L"HELLO BOSS");
if(chrome!=0) printf("Got Chrome\r\n"); else printf("Chrome not found\r\n");
if(mywin!=0) printf("Got yours\r\n"); else printf("Your window not found\r\n");
SetParent(chrome, mywin);
SetWindowLong(chrome, GWL_STYLE, WS_CHILDWINDOW | WS_VISIBLE );
UpdateWindow(chrome);
UpdateWindow(mywin);
_getch();
}
Oh BTW, please don't ask me what I'm trying to achieve. :D It's a surprise.