AmigoJack
asked on
Window or Handle creation time?
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 :-)
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 :-)
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
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
SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
ASKER
Thanks for contributing :)
ASKER
yes it's obvious to write an own helper app which logs all window creations if nothing helpful exists. However - isn't there any other chance? Running hooks for this little purpose is like shooting sparrows with canons ;-)