"gmiles@inventeering.com" <x@no.email> wrote in message news:1155139809247-402147@exchange.ni.com...
I have figured out how to add menu Item to an existing EXE program, but I have not yet been able to figure out how to capture there events. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It's not entirely clear what you are trying to acieve. I think you're trying to add menu items to an exsisting exe without recompiling it, from LabVIEW. If so the following applies.
You have to hook the winproc. When a menu item is selected, windows send a message to the window's winproc. There are some API's that can be used to point the address of the winproc to another routine. This routine can do filtering, and then call the original routine.
Note that LabVIEW doesn't (or didn't until LV7) use windows menu's, so when a LabVIEW (or exe created with LabVIEW) menu item is called, windows will not send anything. That is the price for platform independency.
I think the OpenG site (or perhaps Winutils from NI) has some vi's to hook windows messages that are send to LabVIEW. Perhaps you can also use them hook another application.
Regards,
Wiebe.
