Simulating a Button Push

[bilbo]

Originally Posted by JuneMouse

where did you dig it out from

I googled for WM_CLICK and only 141 hits came out, some of them with the equate. I don't know who discovered it (I browsed all the hits without success), and I'm surprised that that message has not yet been documented by Microsoft!

Originally Posted by JuneMouse

Doesnt SendMessage Create problems like not getting closed till the original exe returns ???

I didn't find the problem you are reporting... Maybe BCBuilder sub-classes the standard button class???

Regards, bilbo

You probably didn't get many hits because it's BM_CLICK not WM_CLICK See Satyric0n's post above.

[JMI]

He would have found only 281 hits for "BM_CLICK."

This one might be of interest:

http://www.minigui.com/api_ref/group__ctrl__button__msgs.html

and the part where it states:

Define Documentation

#define BM_CLICK 0xF0F5
Simulates the user clicking a button.

An application sends a BM_CLICK message to simulate the user clicking a button.

BM_CLICK

wParam = 0;
lParam = 0;

Definition at line 822 of file control.h.


That seems to make the "definition" of BM_CLICK and WM_CLICK seem somewhat similar. At least in this case.


Regards,

[bilbo]

Thanks, Jackal / JMI,

that was another gross failure of my memory!

I would have known that, since a CLICK is a message specific to Buttons,
it must not be searched under WM_xxx (generic Windows messages),
but under BM_xxx (Button messages).

And that is in fact the place where it is documented by M$,
in their SDK, along with other:

Button Control Messages (BCM_GETIDEALSIZE, BCM_GETIMAGELIST, BCM_GETTEXTMARGIN,BCM_SETIMAGELIST, BCM_SETTEXTMARGIN)

Button Control Notifications (BCN_HOTITEMCHANGE)

Button Messages (BM_CLICK, BM_GETCHECK, BM_GETIMAGE, BM_GETSTATE,BM_SETCHECK, BM_SETIMAGE,BM_SETSTATE,
BM_SETSTYLE)

Button Notifications (BN_CLICKED,BN_DBLCLK, BN_DOUBLECLICKED, BN_KILLFOCUS,BN_SETFOCUS, BN_DISABLE, BN_HILITE, BN_PAINT,BN_PUSHED,BN_UNHILITE,BN_UNPUSHED)

BM_CLICK is defined in winuser.h (for MSVC) as

#define BM_CLICK           0x00F5

and in windows.inc (for MASM32) as

BM_CLICK                             equ 0F5h

Regards, bilbo

By the way, the site you dug out is very interesting, JMI!
They (our chinese colleagues) are offering a full GUI (with some sources) multi-platform and not depending on GDI32/WIN32K...

[EDIT JMI: Master bilbo: Slightly adjusted your post so that it didn't run outside the normal window view and all shows without the scroll sideways.]

[EDIT bilbo: Thanks, JMI, I do not how could it happen!]

Ok this really isn't helping much because I get how you simulate it, yet I don't get how I can insert and run that C code when Typer Shark starts.

Maybe someone can download it and help me a bit (www.popcap.com)