how to manipulate a specific menuItem or a button in customer menubar / toolbar ?

[nfyu]

Hi,

If someone know how to manipulate the menuItem/submenuItem or a button in customer menubar/toolbar by Visual Basic 6 (note: not VBA) ? This means that one menuItem is selected or one buttom is clicked by the code Visual Basic 6.

I actually work with AutoCAD 2000

Thanks very much

[RobertB]

If you mean using the UI itself from VB6, I don't think it is possible. You cannot use VB6 to push a toolbar button, for example.

[B_Roche]

If you mean using the UI itself from VB6, I don't think it is possible. You cannot use VB6 to push a toolbar button, for example.

Are you sure of this? Ive written many routines to hijack other applications menus and controls, but cant say that Ive specifically hijacked an autocad toolbar.

But firing up spy++, I see the toolbar, and each button, has its own hWnd, and hDc, and seems to be accepting standard windows messages. I dont see any class names, or unique identifiers there, which would make the code one-of-a-kind, but it still looks doable (although Im not going to be the one to do it)

Am I missing something?

[RobertB]

Are you sure of this? ...
But firing up spy++, I see the toolbar, and each button, has its own hWnd, and hDc, and seems to be accepting standard windows messages. I dont see any class names, or unique identifiers there, which would make the code one-of-a-kind, but it still looks doable

Although you can get to the hWnd, without unique IDs it might get difficult. It sounds like you are the expert, so I'm happy to defer to your skills.