Alvein

Hello....

I'm trying to make an app to detect when another apps are minimizing and maximizing. I made a custom window proc to detect the APPACTIVATE message, but sometimes it don't works. Some says I have to install a custom hook procedure, but reading on MSDN, I noted to detect systems messages from another threads, I must define my hook proc inside a DLL, and that's unaceptable for my requirements. Am I wrong, or what do you think I should do then?

I hope somebody can help me.

Thanx.

reboot

If that's unacceptable, I suppose you'll have to give up. That's how you do it.

Gamer X

Well, I was able to do something similar just now with the GetWindowPlacement API. I used a timer (though a loop would be better) that changed a label to Notepad's window status (min,max,norm). This code could easily be adapted to look through all open windows.

It's a bit of a stretch, but a viable alternative to a DLL.

Note: I just discovered this in trying to find an answer for this question, so I don't have experience with it, and may be doing something wrong. It looks allright to me though.

Attatched is what I got to work.

Arigato,
Gamer X