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Yes. Use the TApplicationEvents object and the OnMessage event. This
captures all messages to the application.<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I found the problem and it's now
working. A silly error. Thanks for your help.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">On a similar subject, </font><font
face="Arial" size="2">I was wondering if it's possible to obtain
messages sent to the Application object handle within a component
(separate unit), without altering any mainform source?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">This DLL can also communicate with
other external applications by entering the Windows class name to
search and obtain an application handle, and I would like to experiment
with that.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Is that possible?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks,</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ross.</font></div>
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Hi Ross. <br>
How and where are you telling the DLL which window handle to post its
messages to? <br>
<br>
is there a dll call such as
SetWindowHandleformessaging(MyInstance.Handle) ? or does it just happen
like magic?<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi Kyley</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Yes, I do receive WM_USER
messages. This is how the DLL communicates. As I mentioned, it works
perfectly if I put all the message checking in the mainform, but it
doesn't work in the separate unit, even with the AllocateHWnd.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Here is all my relevant code.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">TMyComponent =
class(TComponent)<br>
private<br>
FHandle: HWnd;<br>
procedure WndProc(var Message: TMessage);</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">end;</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">constructor
TMyComponent.Create;<br>
begin<br>
inherited Create(AOwner);<br>
FHandle := AllocateHWnd(WndProc);<br>
end;</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">destructor
TMyComponent.Destroy;<br>
begin<br>
DeallocateHWnd(FHandle);<br>
inherited Destroy;<br>
end;</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">procedure
TMyComponent.WndProc(var Message: TMessage);<br>
begin<br>
with Message do<br>
if Msg = WM_USER then<br>
begin</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"> Result
:= lparam + wparam //(for example)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"> end</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"> else Result :=
DefWindowProc(FHandle, Msg, wParam, lParam);<br>
end;</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I get a couple messages when the
program loads but I never get Msg = WM_USER.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Do you see any problems with
this code?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The following code,
however, when placed in the mainform does detect WM_USER messages.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">TForm1 =
class(TForm)<br>
...</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"> procedure
WMUSER(var Message: TMessage); message WM_USER;</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">end;</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">procedure
TForm1.WMUSER(var Message: TMessage);<br>
begin<br>
with Message do<br>
if Msg = WM_USER then showmessage('It Works!');<br>
end;</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I've tried different
combinations of the syntax, including the <font color="#000080">message
WM_USER;</font><font color="#000000"> bit in the unit but it doesn't
make any difference at all. In fact I still get other messages when
the program starts.</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for the help.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ross.</font></div>
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Try the wrapper class just incase you have made a blooper. but it is
unlikely that you will ever receive a message with the ID WM_USER. that
is simply an offset to coordinate with windows messages. eg
WM_USERLOGON = WM_USER+1 is an example of a user defined message.<br>
<br>
then <br>
myobject = class(TObject)<br>
procedure WMUSERLOGON(var msg:TMessage);message WM_USERLOGON; <br>
end;<br>
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the above procedure will only ever receive that one message. You need
to know exactly what messages you are expecting from the dll.<br>
<br>
if you use my wrapper, and attached an instance of the above object to
message handler it will route the messages to that instance..<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for that Kyley. I
managed to implement AllocateHWnd etc, and everything appears correct
and logical. It's picking up some Windows messages but not the WM_USER
messages being sent. WM_USER is message number 1024. I'm getting
Message.Msg = 28 and that's about it.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I tried the same code in the
mainform as a test and this worked but only after I specified the
following:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">procedure MyMessage(var
Message: TMessage); message WM_USER;</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">If I leave off "message
WM_USER", then nothing gets through to the procedure in the mainform at
all.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I tried this in the unit and
it doesn't make any difference. Message 28 is still getting to the
procedure and no 1024.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">You can tell I'm no expert
when it comes to this. Do I need to use your fancy looking wrapper
class?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I must be missing something.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ross.</font></div>
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in the forms unit<br>
<br>
function AllocateHWnd(Method: TWndMethod): HWND; deprecated; { moved
to Classes.pas }<br>
{$EXTERNALSYM AllocateHWnd}<br>
procedure DeallocateHWnd(Wnd: HWND); deprecated; { moved
to Classes.pas }<br>
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<br>
read the help will sort you out just fine<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm writing a component
which communicates with a 3rd party DLL using WM_USER messages. After
loading the DLL, I need to tell the DLL the handle to send user
messages back to, so my unit can intercept them, but I don't know where
to get a handle from. I know how to do it in the mainform of a program
but not in a separate unit. The messages sent to the mainform do not
appear to reach my unit.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">What do I need to do to
make this happen?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font color="#000000">Thanks,</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font color="#000000">Ross.</font></font></div>
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