Send message to other Application through mine

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I would like to know how to send message to other application through my application. For example i have opened notepad (but minimized) and my application and now i click "show it" and it shows notepad or if i type something in my application textbox then that it types in that notepad two even if its minimized!

Thank you! :)

Posted 20-Feb-11 12:54pm

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Nish Nishant · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-20T13:02:00

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You need to SendMessage/PostMessage Windows messages to the target HWND. You may also need a CBT hook depending on how you want to manipulate the behavior of the destination window.

See this article on this topic:
Manipulating Windows using messages and simple CBT hooking[^]

(apparently lots of people are trying to do this nowadays, this question comes up very frequently).

Posted 20-Feb-11 13:02pm

Nish Nishant

Updated 20-Feb-11 13:03pm

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Espen Harlinn 20-Feb-11 19:19pm

A 20 >> 2 - good answer, odd request, wonder why ...

Nish Nishant 20-Feb-11 19:20pm

I agree, there's rarely a good reason to do this sort of thing :-)

FeRtoll 20-Feb-11 20:53pm

when i do it to end ill share it with you :D Then you will see :P Its for fun and good use!
Does anyone of you have skype? i dont want to post 1000 questions. If anyone of you have add me "fertoll" i have only 2 more questions and its about process -> get proces by name and process -> child windows Thank you!

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