For stuff like checking what windows are created and which childs and parents there are, the well known developers tool
Spy++ which comes with Visual Studio (or any other clone like
Systree++) is essential.
Also see:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2007/01/16/spy-internals.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2007/03/22/spy-update.aspx
if you're interested in how this tool works
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To detect if tabbed chats is enabled the easiest would be to check that option's registry value. You can also check if the TabbedHostWndClass class exists. I see others already said this...
EDIT:
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Originally posted by Matti
As for reading a REG_BINARY from the registry, you'll probably want to use some registry functions for that. Screenshot Sender 5 comes with a nifty set of registry functionalities which support REG_BINARY. Feel free to use that script file but please credit the original authors in a comment block at the top of the file.
You don't need to read it as a REG_BINARY if that binary string represents a DWORD (4 bytes). Just read it as a REG_DWORD in that case.
As such, a full blown registry libary for just checking 1 value is also very much over the top. Reading that registry key can also be done using the build-in regkey functions.
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Originally posted by Domsy
Oh, wow, thanks! That's quite involved just to check for something that's not too crucial in my case, particularly if I'm going to be doing that every single event (not sure how heavy registry checks are)... May not be worth it...
Depends on what 'event' you mean. If it is just the
OnEvent_ChatWndCreated function then there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, it would be essential to first check that registry key before you do anything else. Although it also highly depends if you can enable/disable tabbed chats in WLM 2011 on the fly though. If the user can only enable/disable it with a restart of WLM then doing the check in
OnEvent_Initialize is sufficient, but if the user can change that setting whenever he wants you must always check the value before you do what you need to do (eg changing the icon of the chatwindow upon creation of that window).
And as said above, you don't need any library to check just one registry value. Use the build in functions in JScript for that.
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Originally posted by Domsy
... except I can't seem to find a disable script command. Doh... Is there one?
You wont find one because you should not be disabling scripts! You should use programming logic (IF THEN ELSE) to control what your script should do (or not do).
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