When the user clicks the window title/button in the taskbar, what .NET event (or Windows API message) is sent to the window?
I’m using C#/.NET 2.0/Windows Forms.
Thank you
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When the user clicks the window title/button in the taskbar, what .NET event (or Windows API message) is sent to the window?
I’m using C#/.NET 2.0/Windows Forms.
Thank you
To discover the messages that are send to a window at various points you should consider using Microsoft Spy++. On my machine it is located at the following path
Note I am using 64bit OS hence the (x86).
The type and number of messages is quite big and I am sure varies slightly between OS versions like XP and Windows 7. However the key events/mesages would probably remain pretty constant.
WM_ACTIVATE (When activating and deactivating)
WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING
WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED
etc.
Another good tool is ManagedSpy, but I have not tried it on anything other than XP, it does not seem to run on Windows 7 64bit, but I have not done much investigation (Yet!).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163617.aspx