Hi,
I particurlarly need to know when a window was created or displayed. This is essential for various "MessageBox"es that popup from random programs with a text in it but without any timecode saying when this message popped up. This is especially annoying on long-time tasks where nobody is in front of the system.
So - is there any way to get the creation time of a window? I don't mean the creation time of a whole process (and to be clear: I don't mean the startup time of Windows itself, too). And sadly it seems that MessageBoxes also won't create a thread (which definitly has a creation time that can be read with ProcExp).
My problem would be indirectly solved if somebody can guarantee that the WinAPI (or else) was never meant to know the creation time of a handle. In this case it can't be helped of course.
Thanks for reading and thinking :-)
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Sorry, I don't know any other method. AFAIK handles in windows are just 32-bit values handled by the OS. I guess these handles are stored/used in a way that they can be created/accessed/destroyed
There indeed is no such thing as a creation time for a handle - but I'd rather go for a WH_GETMESSAGE hook, so you can intercept WM_CREATE messages sent to a MessageBox by identifying their Window Class name using 'GetClassName()' and the MSG::time parameter. See e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/
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by: ZoppoPosted on 2009-02-23 at 02:15:43ID: 23709644
HI AmigoJack,
I don't think there's a possibility to find the creation time of a HANDLE - at least I never heard or read about something to do so.
But, maybe you could implement a system wide hook which can log all window creation/deletion times you need - to do so you would need a WH_CBT-hook proc.
ZOPPO