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How to paint into another windows' caption bar Turn on/off line numbers in source code. Switch to Orginial background IDE or DSP color Comment or reply to this aritlce/tip for discussion. Bookmark this article to my favorite article(s). Print this article
04-Oct-02
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			 Author: Jonas Bilinkevicius

How to paint into another windows' caption bar

Answer:

If you can get a handle to a Windows object, generally if it supports a WM_SETTEXT 
message (most windows do), then you can change the caption. The example below does 
just that:
1   
2   procedure Form1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
3   begin
4     WinExec('notepad.exe', SW_SHOWNORMAL);
5   end;
6   
7   procedure Form1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
8   var
9     hChild: HWND;
10    strNewTitle: string;
11  begin
12    hChild := FindWindow(nil, 'Untitled - Notepad');
13    if (hChild <> NULL) then
14    begin
15      strNewTitle := ' Funny name ';
16      SendMessage(hChild, WM_SETTEXT, 0, LPARAM(PChar(strNewTitle)));
17    end;
18  end;


Note that this was written in D5 and the FindWindow(...) function can be a little ornery in some instances (like case sensitivity and precise text makeup, see example).

			
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