Shoutbox

Hi Dempsey just pm'ed me about this issue...

First of all i tryed the CBT hook as well and had the same problem with raceprouk with HCBT_CREATED... because the plugin was loaded after the conctact list was created, so it was useless...

Then i used the HCBT_ACTIVATE hook whick worked ok, but still there is a catch here as you subclass the window before Plus! does and there i had a problem with transparency (cause i am removing the menu)... so there is no good as well

From my reaserch after trying to resolve the transparency issue i had to subclass the window after Plus does, so i had to make sure that at least the plus menu is loaded in the contactlist window...

I have also tryed other hook types such as WH_WNDPROC etc but still that was no good, so i decided to work with api hooking

So the latest place that i have come upto right now that doesnot give me a problem with the transparency is hooking the InsertMenuItem() API called by msgplush.dll not msnmsgr.exe

But then again if you are not removing the menu bar then at HCBT_ACTIVATE it should work fine.

I order to test for the contactlist hwnd compare it with the handle provided by the messenger API

hope it helps, if you need any more clarifications let me know