I'm in a research to find a way to take a screenshot of a window using Node.js, and I'm trying to do this with node-ffi, but I don't know how... at a time I'm stuck here: var ffi = require('ffi');...

I have a Console / Form hybrid application in C#, and at the moment, i have to rely on user32.dll to show/hide the console window. But I can't seem to find a way in which i can determine if the con...

First, sorry if I sound arrogant/rude here. All right, so everyone has run into this by now (I hope); I just haven't found any adequate answer anywhere. We start with a Common Controls 6 manifest ...

Is there any way I can handle the WM_NCHITTEST message in the window procedure such that the mouse will "fall through" to the next application below? Right now I draw a custom shadow deco...

I have to implement a feature where the last position of the window is saved. When the application starts up this position needs to be obtained and restored. Now it could be that a second monitor ...

Is there a way using Win32, to register for notifications when a new window is created. I'm trying to keep a list of current open windows, but am now just polling the list of current windows using ...

I was trying to simulate (global) mouse click using SendInput() from user32 dll in C# .NET. I have already tried SendInput() for keyboard input and it works fine. But for some reasons it doesn't wo...

I'm trying to automate some stuff on a legacy application that I don't have the source to. So I'm essentially trying to use the Windows API to click the buttons I'll need on it. There is a toolbar ...

I am using this board as a keyboard for demo purposes. Anyways to make the long story short everything works fine except for very few cases. I send keystrokes with the SendInput function located in...

I am working on trying to close a specific MessageBox if it shows up based on the caption and text. I have it working when the MessageBox doesn't have an icon. IntPtr handle = FindWindowByCaption(...

Ive seen many solutions online but none does exactly what I want. What is the best/simplest way to get any keys pressed in a given process (not my console applicaton) while my application is runnin...

I'm attempting to find a minimized window and Show it. The program can be downloaded from Samsung and it is titled "SideSync". To fully replicate my question you would need to install this and als...

Using user32.dll and C# I wrote the method that you see below. Using a process handle for a window, it will set the window position at a provided (x, y) location. However, in a multi-monitored envi...

I know I should generally avoid messing up with such system settings, but my application do already use nonstandard colors and I have no influence on that. I would like to be able to add standard ....

Consider these two definitions for GetWindowText. One uses a string for the buffer, the other uses a StringBuilder instead: [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)] p...

I am writing a small app that will among other things expand shortcuts into full text while typing. example: the user writes "BNN" somewhere and presses the relevant keyboard combination, the app w...

I've got an always on-top application (basically a status display) that I want to follow around another program and always sit just to the left of the minimize button. I can get the Rect represent...

I am taking screenshots of Windows desktop with code such as HDC hScreen = GetDC(NULL); HDC hDC = CreateCompatibleDC(hScreen); HBITMAP hBitmap = CreateCompatibleBitmap(hScreen, w, h); HGDIOBJ old_...

I made a borderless windowed application and a "fake" title bar to drag it. I'm using user32.dll, This to start the window drag (triggered by unity IBeginDragHandler) : public const int WM_NCLB...

I had create a little program that simulate keyboard event that I used for filled data in Oracle but when I use keybd_event for introduce the character underscore, the output is wrong If _ is not t...

I do not have the ability to modify environment variables in windows 7. However I have been granted permission to modify the registry settings. So for example I can modify: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTE...

I am currently trying to find a way to check whether a window is open or not using Findwindow Function. I am able to find the window if i know the entire name of the window. In the below code i kno...

I currently use the WM_GETICON message in a C# Windows application to get the icon associated with a hWnd, but it won't get me the icon for ApplicationFrameHost (Windows Store Apps) processes (whic...

I want to resize and/or move some external windows from my application, mainly the On-Screen keyboardwindow. Here is the code: [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)] internal static exte...

If I don't use WM_SETICON first to set the icon then WM_GETICON is always returning 0. This is weird. Please help. This is my code, can copy paste into scratchpad and run. When doing SendMessage(...