Just to add to what Chip said, sometimes, if you're lucky, a simple look
at the control in the immediate mode window will do the trick. I just
opened a program wherein I knew I had some good examples. And here's all
I did.
1. Focus the custom control.
2. Open the Immediate mode window.
3. Enter the following and note the result.
Print FocusedWindow.ClassName
sfppack2Bld1503TrackbarClass
From that I know it's just a custom track bar and reclass it as a track
bar.
But this is the luck of the draw. Sometimes class names are informative
or at least give you a potential clue or hint as to what to try.
Otherwise it's a matter of trying to figure the control out by
evaluating its functionality. And sometimes these custom controls look
virtually no different than their standard counterparts. So borrowing a
pair of knowledgeable eyes can sometimes reveal their secret.
Good luck,
Tom
On 11/26/2011 7:34 PM, Chip Orange wrote:
Hi Katherine,
I'm afraid you can't reclass unless you have a pretty good idea as to what
it should be.
If you're a scripter, you can use the various scripting tools to take a look
at the control's name or class (which often gives you a hint as to what it's
being used for), or the MSAA info log using the WE Event app might tell you
something.
If you're not a scripter, then you are usually left to trial and error (and
a lot of the time, you have to set it back to "original" because whatever
you chose is worse than what it was doing).
Sorry it's not easier than that, but if it is, I'm afraid I don't know about
it.
Chip
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From: Katherine Moss [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 7:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: how to know what to reclass controls as when encountered
Hello all,
I was fooling around a few weeks ago with the WCF service
configuration editor (a tool in the Windows SDK that I will need in future
development endeavors), and I realized that some of the controls were custom
according to WE, so I made an attempt at reclassing them. I reclassed them
as buttons not knowing what they were actually supposed to be, and whatever
I did, that seemed to make them all disjunct and unreadable. WE could read
them, but it sounded like Gibberish rather than English. What is the first
step when trying to reclass a control in figuring out what it should be?
Thanks guys.
Katherine Moss,
Administrator of the AccessCop Network, previously Raeder24.org. Visit us
on the web at http://raeder24.org<http://raeder24.org/>
