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Subclassing and Hooking with Visual Basic
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Subclassing and Hooking with Visual Basic

by Stephen Teilhet
June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
706 pages
24h 10m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Caveats

You must remember that this hook only intercepts posted messages. Any message sent to a window using SendMessage-type API calls will not be captured. Also, this hook might modify the message. Take care when modifying any message; verify that it will not adversely affect any other functionality.

This hook functions differently when running in the VB IDE than when running from inside an EXE. The difference is that while running in the IDE, an additional PeekMessage is performed with a PM_NOREMOVE flag. This simply examines the message and its details but does not remove it from the message queue. The message is removed from the message queue in a subsequent PeekMessage call. See Figure 11-1 and Figure 11-2 for examples of this.

As always, you must take performance into consideration when using this hook, especially when the hook is system-wide.

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