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Re: SendMessage, WM_COPYDATA, FindWindow and TApplication

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From: Stefano Bonifazi
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:41
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THANK You very much for Your reply Mr. Lebeau...

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Stefano Bonifazi" <stefboombastic@tele2.it> wrote in message
>> FindWindow("TForm1","Form1") fails
>
> Then you are not using it correctly, because it works fine for me whenever
I
> use it.

If U say it should work then I'll try that again!:-)

> > Stopping here I can only send the message to the "application window"...
>
> Not true.  You can send messages to any window.

I meant I could send message only to the "application window" because I
could not get the Form's handle ...
>
> Correct.  For other messages, you will need to use
> Application->HookMainWindow() instead.

Thank U ... as always U have the solution for every my problem that's what I
needed

> > 2)Is there a way to get the MainForm handle by using FindWindow?
>
> You already know how.  There is nothing wrong with using
> FindWindow("TForm1", "Form1"), it works fine assuming those are your
actual
> values of your window.  I do strongly recommend that you give your forms
> more unique names, though, to prevent FindWindow() from finding windows
that
> belong to other applications instead of your own, in case you are running
> other VCL programs written by other people.  You should never stick with
> using the default names for very long.
>
I always use personal full qualified names for all my program' objects, but
I prefer to use the standard ones, when I post a thread, to help who read to
understand better the problem :)
>

Thank You again Mr Gambit!!!

My best regards!
Stefano B.
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