Thread: SendMessage problem.

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    Exclamation SendMessage problem.

    Scroll down to see how far i have got with my code

    Code:
    void CAstraView::OnGoHomeButton() 
    {
    	int hWnd = (int)FindWindow(NULL, "Microsoft Internet Explorer");
    
    	if(hWnd == NULL)
    	{
    		MessageBox("Couldn't find window", "Error", MB_OK);
    	}
    	else
    	{
    		LRESULT SendMessage(hWnd,
    				     WM_MOUSEACTIVATE);	
    		LRESULT SendMessage(hWnd,
    				     WM_NCHITTEST(HTCLIENT));
    		LRESULT SendMessage(hWnd,
    				     WM_LBUTTONDOWN);
    	}
    }
    i've made a program with a button, and i want my program to (when i click my button) select the first internet explorer window and click the home button.

    What have i done wrong so far?

    Help appreciated, i've spent the last 4 hours searching google and getting nowhere.

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    Last edited by Astra; 01-01-2007 at 04:42 PM.

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    Err....is not that easy.

    First:
    FindWindow(NULL, "Microsoft Internet Explorer");
    Is looking for a Window with the class Microsoft Internet Explorer, since the IE browser class is mostly IEFrame in version 7... so, try that..

    I also recommend to see what usefull this can be for you.
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    Ah Ok thanks, heres my code so far, now im only getting 1 error:

    Code:
    void CAstraView::OnGOHOME()
    {
    	HWND IE;
    
    	IE = (struct HWND__ *)FindWindow("IEFrame", 0);
        	
    	if(IE == NULL)
    	{
    		MessageBox("IE Window not found", "Error" ,MB_OK);
    	}
    	else if(IE != NULL)
    	{
    		SendMessage(WM_MOUSEACTIVATE, IE, HTCLIENT);
    		SendMessage(WM_LBUTTONDOWN, MK_LBUTTON, MAKELPARAM(208, 46));
    	}
    }
    Error: error C2664: 'SendMessageA' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'struct HWND__ *' to 'unsigned int'

    and for the findwindow thing, it should be correct because the class name comes first > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633499.aspx
    Last edited by Astra; 01-01-2007 at 12:50 PM.

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    Help please.... how else can i set this out to avoid having to typecast IE as an unsigned int later on? as it compiles that way but doesn't work.

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    You'll probably have to use COM. Check out the iexplore.cpp sample in COM Helper, DispHelper.

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    Your arguments to FindWindow are ok. (Although I'd make the second one NULL, since it's a string, and not an integer.) However, don't cast FindWindow()'s result. It returns a HWND, which is what you're storing it to. Don't cast the result.

    Second, SendMessage(). Look it up in the MSDN library. It has four parameters: SendMessage(hWnd, Msg, wParam, lParam); The first is what window to send the message to, the second is the message to send, the last two are message specific parameters. So, SendMessage(IE, WM_something, _parameter1_, _parameter2_); For the parameters, you'll need to look up the message you're sending to know what the parameters are for.
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    I'm using the MFC selection of classes for windows programming, which has only 3 parameters for sendmessage (basically the same as the 4 parameter one but leaves out the first parameter as it's taken as global with MFC)

    heres my code as it stands:

    Code:
    void CAstraView::OnGOHOME()
    {
    	CWnd* IE;
    
    	IE = FindWindow("IEFrame", NULL);
        	
    	if(IE == NULL)
    	{
    		MessageBox("IE Window not found", "Error" ,MB_OK);
    	}
    	else
    	{
    		IE->SendMessage(WM_MOUSEACTIVATE, IE, HTCLIENT);
    		IE->SendMessage(WM_LBUTTONDOWN, MK_LBUTTON, MAKELPARAM(208, 46));
    	}
    }
    and here's my only error:

    error C2664: 'SendMessageA' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'class CWnd *' to 'unsigned int'

    which refers to this line ''IE->SendMessage(WM_MOUSEACTIVATE, IE, HTCLIENT);''

    Thanks in advance

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    use m_hWnd member of the CWnd class
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    Didn't you read what Cactus_Hugger said? SendMessage has 4 parameters.
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    >> Didn't you read what Cactus_Hugger said? SendMessage has 4 parameters.

    It's MFC. Didn't you read what Astra said?

    >> use m_hWnd member of the CWnd class

    That's private, but you may use CWnd::GetSafeHwnd which just accesses that

    Code:
    IE->SendMessage(WM_MOUSEACTIVATE, WPARAM(IE->GetSafeHwnd()), LPARAM(HTCLIENT));
    Last edited by Tonto; 01-02-2007 at 06:42 AM.

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