Shoutbox

Hi, a while ago I posted a thread about how to implement my own command button on a IM window of MSN.

This seems to work, at least the part of showing the button on the window.

I'm having problems with positioning the new button into the window:



The button is allways in the upper left corner of each window, and no matter what code i write to position the button, it doesn't work...

frustrating, I know

Maybe good to know: I'm programming in VBNET so the code I'm giving you is probably a lil different from VB6 syntax

code:

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Private WithEvents oMessenger As Messenger
    Private Declare Function SetParent Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hWndChild As IntPtr, ByVal hWndNewParent As IntPtr) As IntPtr
    Public Declare Function GetWindowRect Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal lpRect As RECT) As IntPtr

    Public Structure RECT
        Dim x As Long
        Dim y As Long
        Dim Width As Long
        Dim Height As Long
    End Structure

    Public R As RECT = New RECT
    Public newBtn As FragMsnIMButton

    Private Sub FragMsnIMButton_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        oMessenger = New Messenger
    End Sub

    Private Sub oMessenger_OnIMWindowCreated(ByVal pIMWindow As Object) Handles oMessenger.OnIMWindowCreated
        '
        Try
            newBtn = New FragMsnIMButton ' create a copy of FragMsnIMButton
            Dim child As System.IntPtr = Me.btnFrag.Handle
            Dim par As System.IntPtr = pIMWindow.hwnd.ToString
            '
            SetParent(child, par)
            '
            Try
                'GetWindowRect(par, R)
            Catch ex As Exception
                MsgBox(ex.Message.ToString)
            End Try
            '
            newBtn.Left = 13500
            newBtn.Top = 2800
            '
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.Message.ToString)
        End Try

    End Sub

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So that is my main concern. Another concern is the error I'm getting while executing the 'GetWindowRect(par, R)' method.
It's something like 'attempt to overwrite protected memory'... If anyone knows anything about that, all help is welcome.


Thanks,

Kenny