New scripting functionality: Window Hook

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NetMage

287 discussion posts

I'm not sure how you could add this (easily), but I am wondering if you could add some type of Window Hook event to BFS so that a trigger (such as Window Created) could setup a Window Hook for the new Window, calling a C# function and then modifying/capturing Window events.

Jul 6, 2016 • #1

I'll pass this along to our devs to see what insight they can offer on this

Jul 7, 2016 • #2

What types of window hooks and events are you trying to capture?

Jul 13, 2016 • #3

NetMage

287 discussion posts

A generic Window Hook that captures all Window events would be nice (imagine implementing Spy++), or maybe one with some type of class filter would be fine. Perhaps something like SetWinEventHook or SetWindowsHookEx? Something like a simplified version of SpyWorks perhaps?

Imagine I was trying to convert minimize button right-clicks to be Minimize to Tray

I would want to look for a WM_NCRBUTTONUP message with a HTMINBUTTON wParam and call Minimize to Tray.

Jul 14, 2016 • #4

Unfortunately many of these hooks require native DLLs, not the managed code that the scripts run in. It's a very powerful idea though, we'll keep in mind if we can come up with a safe way to do this in the future.

Jul 18, 2016 • #5

NetMage

287 discussion posts

I figured you are already injecting a DLL into every process with Windows anyway...

Jul 19, 2016 • #6

We are doing this, but the injected code that runs is all native code, not the managed code the Scripted Functions are written in.