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Re: Subclassing and a couple of other things


Simon Vilmer Pedersen wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I am experimenting a bit with window subclassing, in specific subclassing the window of the IRC program mIRC from another program. But I cannot seem to get it to work like in the SDK.
> First I get the hwnd of the window, with FindWindow("mIRC",NULL)
> and it returns the proper hwnd.
> But when I then call orgWinProc = (WNDPROC)SetWindowLong(hwnd,GWL_WINPROC,(LONG)WinProc)
> it returns NULL, and a test with GetWindowLong shows that the above command had no effect.
> But GetLastError returns 0. Anyone who can help me with this?

You cannot subclass a window in another process in WIN32.
This is because the processes have different address
spaces.

/Anders
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