Re: Detecting Window

Fufi wrote: 
Hi, someone know for a good component or code that
can I use to detect global Windows messages
about windows are opened/closed.

I dont need to detect what window was opened,
but just that some window was opened....

Install a system-wide CBT hook (See Google). The Platform SDK has this to say about CBT hooks:

"The CBTProc hook procedure is an application-defined or library-defined callback function used with the SetWindowsHookEx function. The system calls this function before activating, creating, destroying, minimizing, maximizing, moving, or sizing a window; before completing a system command; before removing a mouse or keyboard event from the system message queue; before setting the keyboard focus; or before synchronizing with the system message queue. A computer-based training (CBT) application uses this hook procedure to receive useful notifications from the system."

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock
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