BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Delphi program to interact with other application          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Shiva MahaDeva Guest Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 4:00 pm    Post subject: Delphi program to interact with other application I'm looking for a Delphi program to send data to another application (simulating control_c control_v). Thankx. Back to top J French Guest Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 4:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application On 26 Feb 2004 08:00:12 -0800, [email]contracer11 (AT) uol (DOT) com.br[/email] (Shiva MahaDeva) wrote: Quote: I'm looking for a Delphi program to send data to another application (simulating control_c control_v). Thankx. RegisterWindowMessage ? Back to top IByte Guest Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application Shiva MahaDeva wrote: Quote: I'm looking for a Delphi program to send data to another application (simulating control_c control_v). Thankx. Try looking for a file called SndKey32.pas on your Delphi CD. It contains a function to simulate keypresses (SendKeys) like Control+C / Control+V and to switch to the desired windows (AppActivate, but you might also want to look into the SetWindowPos Win API function). I use it in one of my own utilities, something a bit like Windows's Character Map. Regards, IByte Back to top Rushikesh Joshi Guest Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 6:30 am    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application [email]contracer11 (AT) uol (DOT) com.br[/email] (Shiva MahaDeva) wrote in message news:<ddf392ea.0402260800.789bc28 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com>... Quote: I'm looking for a Delphi program to send data to another application (simulating control_c control_v). Thankx. I am not know more about Delphi Code. But I have did same in one of my task. You can able to know the handle of the destination window on which you want to raise the Ctrl + C & Ctrl + V keyboard events. If you know VB Or VC, you also can do same as I have. code is as follows ... ''VB Code ''Make a new project and in form module copy past following code Option Explicit 'Api Declaration to Get Process ID of running Apps from handle of that Window Private Declare Function GetWindowThreadProcessId Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, lpdwProcessId As Long) As Long Private Function RaiseKeyboardEvent(DestWinHandle as long) as Long Dim PID As Long, rt As Long rt = GetWindowThreadProcessId(DestWinHandle, PID) If rt <> 0 Then ''This will active your destination window Call AppActivate(PID) DoEvents ''This will raise Keyboard Ctrl + C event ''On more helo goto MSDN and look for SendKeys function opr method Call SendKeys("^(C)") Call SendKeys("^(V)") End If End Function ''Now pass your destination windows handle (Long value only) to RaiseKeyboardEvent function to get your result I definately sure it works or make some help for you. Hey, would you help me as u are know delphi programming. I have a application wrote in Delphi. There is a Program Executable in Windows. When I have open the Executable file in Binary View I found some entries like Borland & Delphi. I am not know more about delphi. But the components using in this program is like TStringGrid, TComboBox, TStringList etc ... Now I need some help about TStringGrid. I am know the handle of that TStringGrid. Now, is it possible to develop a program which able to read this grid. In more I know some methods like SendMessage, in which I have to pass handle of that window and some WindowMessage, WParam & LParam. I know C,C++,VC++,VB languages greatly. Or it is poosible in other languages else i have mentioned also welcomed. Or any idea hint. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Rushikesh Joshi Back to top J French Guest Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 6:40 am    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application On 26 Feb 2004 08:00:12 -0800, [email]contracer11 (AT) uol (DOT) com.br[/email] (Shiva MahaDeva) wrote: Quote: I'm looking for a Delphi program to send data to another application (simulating control_c control_v). Thankx. Ah, I misread the post - you want to paste into a 3rd party App You'll need to find the appropriate window handle Then send it a WM_PASTE message (text only I think) - or possibly WM_SETTEXT Another way is to put focus on the appropriate window and simulate the keys using Keybd_Event Back to top J French Guest Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 7:31 am    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application On 26 Feb 2004 22:30:30 -0800, [email]rushi_asi (AT) yahoo (DOT) com[/email] (Rushikesh Joshi) wrote: <snip> Quote: Hey, would you help me as u are know delphi programming. I have a application wrote in Delphi. There is a Program Executable in Windows. When I have open the Executable file in Binary View I found some entries like Borland & Delphi. I am not know more about delphi. But the components using in this program is like TStringGrid, TComboBox, TStringList etc ... Now I need some help about TStringGrid. I am know the handle of that TStringGrid. Now, is it possible to develop a program which able to read this grid. In more I know some methods like SendMessage, in which I have to pass handle of that window and some WindowMessage, WParam & LParam. It is probably Delphi, although I believe C++ Bulider uses Delphi's visual component libraries A TStringGrid holds its data internally within Delphi - when Editing it appears to put a form of Edit box over the cell (actually a TCustomMaskEdit) - that responds to WM_GETTEXT However, the normal Cells are 'painted' so there is no real data directly behind them I do not think that what you want to do will be easy Back to top Rushikesh Joshi Guest Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:56 pm    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application Hi J French, Thanks to reply, as you are told the grid is paint, But i have found there is some events fired like mouse_down, key_down etc... And in more the rows are also able to select & able to raise some key press events on this rows. I have some API's related to Grids to insert the rows. I will give to review that APIs, Please see it and tell me it is work on TStringGrid or not. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/db2olap/v81docs/api/api_c/apigrid/decls/egadefs.htm Here at this link you will found some Functions Reference & examples. Thanks Rushikesh Joshi Back to top J French Guest Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 2:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application On 27 Feb 2004 05:56:05 -0800, [email]rushi_asi (AT) yahoo (DOT) com[/email] (Rushikesh Joshi) wrote: Quote: Hi J French, Thanks to reply, as you are told the grid is paint, But i have found there is some events fired like mouse_down, key_down etc... And in more the rows are also able to select & able to raise some key press events on this rows. I have some API's related to Grids to insert the rows. I will give to review that APIs, Please see it and tell me it is work on TStringGrid or not. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/db2olap/v81docs/api/api_c/apigrid/decls/egadefs.htm That stuff does not look like a TStringGrid I had a look at the Delphi Library source of TStringGrid before my last post, and could not see any 'message based' ways of extracting the data - although I might have missed something Back to top Duncan McNiven Guest Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 3:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:04:04 +0000 (UTC), [email]erewhon (AT) nowhere (DOT) com[/email] (J French) wrote: Quote: I had a look at the Delphi Library source of TStringGrid before my last post, and could not see any 'message based' ways of extracting the data - although I might have missed something I don't think you did. I too looked at the TStringGrid source and it led nowhere. Of course, it would be possible to provide a list of messages the grid handles, if the OP is sufficiently interested/masochistic. Anyway, there is no way of knowing if the grid is owner drawn or not, so even if there were some message-based means of reaching the strings behind the grid, there is no guarantee that these are the same as are shown to the user. Indeed, there may not be any strings behinf the grid - they may be prepared on-the-fly. So I think the OP is on a hiding to nothing, unless they are really lucky. A better bet may be to contact the original developer and get some hooks built in, or to look for the source of the data rather than the displayed data. -- Duncan Back to top Rushikesh Joshi Guest Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 1:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application [email]erewhon (AT) nowhere (DOT) com[/email] (J French) wrote in message news:<403f4e5d.197596032 (AT) news (DOT) btclick.com>... Quote: On 27 Feb 2004 05:56:05 -0800, [email]rushi_asi (AT) yahoo (DOT) com[/email] (Rushikesh Joshi) wrote: Hi J French, Thanks to reply, as you are told the grid is paint, But i have found there is some events fired like mouse_down, key_down etc... And in more the rows are also able to select & able to raise some key press events on this rows. I have some API's related to Grids to insert the rows. I will give to review that APIs, Please see it and tell me it is work on TStringGrid or not. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/db2olap/v81docs/api/api_c/apigrid/decls/egadefs.htm That stuff does not look like a TStringGrid I had a look at the Delphi Library source of TStringGrid before my last post, and could not see any 'message based' ways of extracting the data - although I might have missed something Hi J French Thanks to reaply me, sir as u ahve told me that stuff don't like TStringGrid. I ahve refered the Deplhi 7.0 Book. I have not found any idea about TStringGrid. But my friend as i have used the Spy++ (A Class/Handle) tracker from Microsoft is give me the class as TStringGrid. It is possible that the grid which I look is 3rd party component please once look at, http://www.link-rank.com/tour4.htm And i also have send you some snap on your email account so give me your feed back Thanks Rushikesh Joshi Back to top J French Guest Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:39 am    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application On 1 Mar 2004 05:42:37 -0800, [email]rushi_asi (AT) yahoo (DOT) com[/email] (Rushikesh Joshi) wrote: <snip> Quote: Hi J French Thanks to reaply me, sir as u ahve told me that stuff don't like TStringGrid. I ahve refered the Deplhi 7.0 Book. I have not found any idea about TStringGrid. But my friend as i have used the Spy++ (A Class/Handle) tracker from Microsoft is give me the class as TStringGrid. It is possible that the grid which I look is 3rd party component please once look at, http://www.link-rank.com/tour4.htm And i also have send you some snap on your email account so give me your feed back I've looked at that site - and do not really understand what you are after The site appears to be about a product that adds 'skins' to Delphi VCL components. That page appears to be demonstrating what the program looks like when it is re-configuring a TCustomGrid Are you trying to read that program ? If Spy reports the Class as TStringGrid, then that is almost certainly what it is - I see you use VB - I checked out the behaviour of TStringGrid using a little snooper of mine that I wrote in VB GetCursorPos WindowFromPoint GetClassName WM_GETTEXT Delphi Pro comes with the source of its components, so one can drill right down into the code to see how it works - I and a few others have looked into the source of TStringGrid, and it does not appear to expose its data my name is Jerry French and my Email address is Mail[AT]MyName[DOT]co[DOT]uk - unfortunately my former Email address attracted so much spam, that I now resort to such attempts to avoid getting more. Back to top Rushikesh Joshi Guest Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:52 am    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application [email]erewhon (AT) nowhere (DOT) com[/email] (J French) wrote in message news:<40445f3e.529647367 (AT) news (DOT) btclick.com>... Quote: On 1 Mar 2004 05:42:37 -0800, [email]rushi_asi (AT) yahoo (DOT) com[/email] (Rushikesh Joshi) wrote: snip Hi J French Thanks to reaply me, sir as u ahve told me that stuff don't like TStringGrid. I ahve refered the Deplhi 7.0 Book. I have not found any idea about TStringGrid. But my friend as i have used the Spy++ (A Class/Handle) tracker from Microsoft is give me the class as TStringGrid. It is possible that the grid which I look is 3rd party component please once look at, http://www.link-rank.com/tour4.htm And i also have send you some snap on your email account so give me your feed back I've looked at that site - and do not really understand what you are after The site appears to be about a product that adds 'skins' to Delphi VCL components. That page appears to be demonstrating what the program looks like when it is re-configuring a TCustomGrid Are you trying to read that program ? If Spy reports the Class as TStringGrid, then that is almost certainly what it is - I see you use VB - I checked out the behaviour of TStringGrid using a little snooper of mine that I wrote in VB GetCursorPos WindowFromPoint GetClassName WM_GETTEXT Delphi Pro comes with the source of its components, so one can drill right down into the code to see how it works - I and a few others have looked into the source of TStringGrid, and it does not appear to expose its data my name is Jerry French and my Email address is Mail[AT]MyName[DOT]co[DOT]uk - unfortunately my former Email address attracted so much spam, that I now resort to such attempts to avoid getting more. Hi Jerry French I have mailed you some other details on your address mail(at)jerryfrench(dot)co(dot)uk Is this mail address is ok or not. Mail Message is like Hi Jerry French Here I have attached the snap of the software with Spy++, Look in the image of Red Rectangle i can found the grid is used in that software is displays TStringGrid class. Also in previous conversation you have told me the TStringGrid is just paint on screen. But I have found some events like Click,Key_Press and also full row/cell select. Actually I am raise the click event on this grid from other application which i have developed using VB. Now the software which contains this TStringGrid is not using any other component and as you have told me in last that you can view in the code, but as this applicaiton is developed from other and I am not able to know the code. It is possible that the grid which I look is 3rd party component please again once look at, http://www.link-rank.com/tour4.htm. They have some TStringGrid. Attachment: TSTringGrid.JPG //or you can found it at http://c.1asphost.com/rushikeshjoshi/TStringGrid.jpg http://c.1asphost.com/rushikeshjoshi/TStringGrid.bmp You can reply me on my mail address (rushi_asi (AT) hotmail (DOT) com)or append in google groups Thanks Rushikesh Thanks Rushikesh Back to top J French Guest Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application On 5 Mar 2004 03:52:55 -0800, [email]rushi_asi (AT) yahoo (DOT) com[/email] (Rushikesh Joshi) wrote: <snip> Quote: Hi Jerry French I have mailed you some other details on your address mail(at)jerryfrench(dot)co(dot)uk Is this mail address is ok or not. I've not seen the mail yet - but I get a lot of Spam, and my Spam trap sometimes catches valid stuff - I'll keep an eye open Quote: Mail Message is like Hi Jerry French Here I have attached the snap of the software with Spy++, Look in the image of Red Rectangle i can found the grid is used in that software is displays TStringGrid class. Also in previous conversation you have told me the TStringGrid is just paint on screen. It really is just painted on the Screen, in VB terms it is a PictureBox on which everything is created using Print, PSet and Line - except for one thing, the active Entry cell - that is a form of Textbox Quote: But I have found some events like Click,Key_Press and also full row/cell select. A picturebox will have a Click and a KeyPress - the full row select is interesting - I think that is an enhancement to the standard TStringGrid - you may be able to use cut and paste ... maybe Quote: Actually I am raise the click event on this grid from other application which i have developed using VB. That might be interesting - especially if it moves the EditBox - or highlights something for Cut and Paste Quote: Now the software which contains this TStringGrid is not using any other component and as you have told me in last that you can view in the code, but as this applicaiton is developed from other and I am not able to know the code. It looks like a descendant of a TStringGrid - in Delphi you can very easily enhance a component to give it extra properties and methods Quote: It is possible that the grid which I look is 3rd party component please again once look at, http://www.link-rank.com/tour4.htm. They have some TStringGrid. That is - but now I know what you are after Quote: Attachment: TSTringGrid.JPG //or you can found it at http://c.1asphost.com/rushikeshjoshi/TStringGrid.jpg http://c.1asphost.com/rushikeshjoshi/TStringGrid.bmp Those have given me a pretty good idea of what you are after This is getting rather a long way away from Delphi, so it might be an idea to continue this in a VB NG - eg: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc It is not reasonable to hijack an NG for an off topic subject - also you (we) might find someone with some ideas - also ... we might get some verbal abuse here ! Personally I would be inclined to look into this App's data files - unless you want to pick a line, 'scrape' it into another App and act on that - which looks to me like what you are after Back to top Duncan McNiven Guest Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 2:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Delphi program to interact with other application On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:54:37 +0000 (UTC), [email]erewhon (AT) nowhere (DOT) com[/email] (J French) wrote: Quote: - also ... we might get some verbal abuse here ! We don't often get abuse here, but I can't think of any of the regular posters that have shown obvious expertise in this area. Normally this would mean the post just gets ignored. OP: One thing to check is whether you can click on the grid to edit it in the original app. If you can, you could try to similate a "click to edit then copy to clipboard" sequence from VB. If you can't edit the grid in the original app, though, I think you will have problems getting to the data behind the grid. If you can click to edit, it might help for you to have a minimal Delphi app with an editable string grid to experiment on. A grid with handlers for all possible events, and run-time setting of major properties, could make the reverse-engineering easier, and would only take a couple of minutes to put together. Quote: Personally I would be inclined to look into this App's data files Agreed. If the data is in the files, this will be FAR easier than reading the grid. -- Duncan Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc All times are GMT Page 1 of 1   Jump to: Select a forum C++ Builder Newsgroups----------------C++ BuilderC++ Builder (ActiveX)C++ Builder (Announcements)C++ Builder (Command Line Tools)C++ Builder DatabasesC++ Builder Databases (ADO)C++ Builder Databases (Desktop)C++ Builder Databases (InterBase Express)C++ Builder Databases (Multi-Tier)C++ Builder Databases (SQL Servers)C++ Builder (Graphics)C++ Builder (IDE)C++ Builder (Internet)C++ Builder (Internet Socket)C++ Builder (Internet Web)C++ Builder (Jobs)C++ Builder (Language)C++ Builder (Language C++)C++ Builder (Compatibility with MFC)C++ Builder (Native API)C++ Builder (Non-Technical)C++ Builder (Students)C++ Builder (Third Party Tools)C++ Builder (Upgrade)C++ Builder (VCL)C++ Builder (VCL Components Usage)C++ Builder (VCL Components Development)C++ Builder (VCL Usage)C++ Builder (WinAPI)C++ Builder Installation Delphi Newsgroups----------------Delphi (General)Delphi ActiveX Controls UsageDelphi ActiveX Controls DevelopmentDelphi As400Delphi DatabasesDelphi Databases (ADO)Delphi Databases (dbExpress)Delphi Databases (Desktop)Delphi Databases (InterBase Express)Delphi Databases (Multi-Tier)Delphi Databases (SQL Servers)Delphi DeploymentDelphi GraphicsDelphi IDEDelphi InternationalizationDelphi InternetDelphi Internet Isapi-WebBrokerDelphi Internet WebSnapDelphi Internet WinsockDelphi JobsDelphi Language BASMDelphi Language ObjectPascalDelphi Model Driven Architecture (General)Delphi Model Driven Architecture (Third Party)Delphi MultimediaDelphi Native APIDelphi Non-TechnicalDelphi ObjectPascalDelphi OLE AutomationDelphi OO designDelphi OpenToolsAPIDelphi Reporting-ChartingDelphi RTLDelphi StudentsDelphi TeamSourceDelphi Thirdparty ToolsDelphi Thirdparty Tools (General)Delphi Thirdparty Tools (IntraWeb)Delphi Thirdparty Tools (RaveReports)Delphi UpgradeDelphi VCLDelphi VCL ComponentsDelphi VCL Components UsingDelphi VCL Components WritingDelphi WebServices SOAPDelphi WinAPIDelphi XMLDelphi Installationcomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.misccomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.usagecomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.writingcomp.lang.pascal.delphi.databasescomp.lang.pascal.delphi.misccomp.sources.delphi JBuilder Newsgroups----------------JBuilderJBuilder AnnouncementsJBuilder Applet IssuesJBuilder As400JBuilder CompilerJBuilder CORBA/RMIJBuilder DatabasesJBuilder DB SwingJBuilder DebuggerJBuilder DeploymentJBuilder DocumentationJBuilder EnterpriseJBuilder HandheldJBuilder IDEJBuilder JavaJBuilder JavaAPIJBuilder Java LanguageJBuilder Java SwingJBuilder Java BeansJBuilder Java Beans UsageJBuilder Java Beans DevelopmentJBuilder JBCLJBuilder JDataStoreJBuilder JobsJBuilder LinuxJBuilder MacintoshJBuilder & MobileSetJBuilder MultiLingual AppsJBuilder Non-TechnicalJBuilder OpenToolsJBuilder Servlets (JSP)JBuilder StudentsJBuilder Team DevelopmentJBuilder Thirdparty ToolsJBuilder UpgradeJBuilder Installation InterBase Newsgroups----------------InterBaseInterBase Bug DiscussionInterBase GeneralInterBase IBConsoleInterBase OpenSourceInterBase ReplicationInterBase SQLInterBase ThirdpartyInterBase Installation Miscellaneous Borland Newsgroups----------------AppCenterAppServerEnteraVisiBroker  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2006 phpBB Group SEO toolkit © 2004-2006 webmedic.