Watch for a specific dialog box and respond to it (close it)

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22 Sep 2005 3:07 PM

Stephen Corey

I need to close a certain dialog box that windows will throw up
automatically. How can I watch for it and automatically respond?

22 Sep 2005 3:14 PM

Matt Williamson

Stephen-

I'd probably do a FindWindow/FindWindowEx loop looking for the title or
class name of the window in question and use keybd_event or
sendmessage/postmessage with vk_click or similar constant to dismiss it.

HTH

Matt

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"Stephen Corey" <swc@_NOSPAM_wardandsmith.com> wrote in message
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>I need to close a certain dialog box that windows will throw up
>automatically. How can I watch for it and automatically respond?

22 Sep 2005 3:27 PM

alpine

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:07:22 -0400, Stephen Corey
<swc@_NOSPAM_wardandsmith.com> wrote:

>I need to close a certain dialog box that windows will throw up
>automatically. How can I watch for it and automatically respond?

Use a timer and the FindWindo API function.

HTH,
Bryan
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