How to Use SendMessageCallBack API?

[Armando Cardenas]

I'm using SendMessage API to send messages between two applications in the
same machine, but, I need to do this process in an asynchronous way. I'm
probing replacing sendmessage API with the sendmessagecallback API, but i'cant
make that sendmessagecallback API send the message. The SendMessage API is
working well. I know that I should define a callBack Function, I think that
its Ok, but I dont know why I can't send and recive the message using sendmessageCallBack
API.
Can somebody help me?

[Tom Esh]

If it helps, here's a declaration and callback proceedure that work:

Public Declare Function SendMessageCallback Lib "user32" _
Alias "SendMessageCallbackA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal Msg As Long, _
ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any, _
ByVal lpResultCallBack As Long, ByVal dwData As Long) As Long

Public Sub SendAsyncProc(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal uMsg As Long, _
ByVal dwData As Long, ByVal lResult As Long)

Debug.Print "hwnd: " & hwnd
Debug.Print "uMsg: " & uMsg
Debug.Print "dwData: " & dwData
Debug.Print "lResult: " & lResult
End Sub

'test call - paste clipboard contents to textbox:
SendMessageCallback Text1.hwnd, WM_PASTE, 0&, ByVal 0&, _
AddressOf SendAsyncProc, 999&


On 10 Jul 2000 11:21:19 -0700, "Armando Cardenas"
<lacf@microsis.com.mx> wrote:
>
>I'm using SendMessage API to send messages between two applications in the
>same machine, but, I need to do this process in an asynchronous way. I'm
>probing replacing sendmessage API with the sendmessagecallback API, but i'cant
>make that sendmessagecallback API send the message. The SendMessage API is
>working well. I know that I should define a callBack Function, I think that
>its Ok, but I dont know why I can't send and recive the message using sendmessageCallBack
>API.
>Can somebody help me?


-Tom
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[Tom Esh]

If it helps, here's a declaration and callback proceedure that work:

Public Declare Function SendMessageCallback Lib "user32" _
Alias "SendMessageCallbackA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal Msg As Long, _
ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any, _
ByVal lpResultCallBack As Long, ByVal dwData As Long) As Long

Public Sub SendAsyncProc(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal uMsg As Long, _
ByVal dwData As Long, ByVal lResult As Long)

Debug.Print "hwnd: " & hwnd
Debug.Print "uMsg: " & uMsg
Debug.Print "dwData: " & dwData
Debug.Print "lResult: " & lResult
End Sub

'test call - paste clipboard contents to textbox:
SendMessageCallback Text1.hwnd, WM_PASTE, 0&, ByVal 0&, _
AddressOf SendAsyncProc, 999&


On 10 Jul 2000 11:21:19 -0700, "Armando Cardenas"
<lacf@microsis.com.mx> wrote:
>
>I'm using SendMessage API to send messages between two applications in the
>same machine, but, I need to do this process in an asynchronous way. I'm
>probing replacing sendmessage API with the sendmessagecallback API, but i'cant
>make that sendmessagecallback API send the message. The SendMessage API is
>working well. I know that I should define a callBack Function, I think that
>its Ok, but I dont know why I can't send and recive the message using sendmessageCallBack
>API.
>Can somebody help me?


-Tom
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[Armando Cardenas]

Hi Tom, thanks for your help, but your example don't work in my program. I
paste some of code that I use. I need to send strTemp inside the cdCopyData
structure to target aplication in an asynchronous way:

' Get the hWnd of the target application
ThWnd = FindWindow(vbNullString, "Target")
strTemp = "This is the data that will be sent"

' Copy the string into a byte array, converting it to ASCII
Call CopyMemory(byteBuffer(1), ByVal strTemp, Len(strTemp))
cdCopyData.dwData = 3
cdCopyData.cbData = Len(strTemp) + 1
cdCopyData.lpData = VarPtr(byteBuffer(1))

' This Line Work Ok...
i = SendMessage(ThWnd, WM_COPYDATA, Form1.hwnd, cdCopyData)

'This Line Don't Work .... I NEED THIS LINE!!!
SendMessageCallback ThWnd, WM_COPYDATA, Form1.hwnd, _
cdCopyData, AddressOf SendAsyncProc, 999&

'This line work ok ....
'test call - paste clipboard contents to textbox in the same form
SendMessageCallback form.Text1.hwnd, WM_PASTE, 0&, ByVal 0&, _
AddressOf SendAsyncProc, 999&

[Armando Cardenas]

Hi Tom, thanks for your help, but your example don't work in my program. I
paste some of code that I use. I need to send strTemp inside the cdCopyData
structure to target aplication in an asynchronous way:

' Get the hWnd of the target application
ThWnd = FindWindow(vbNullString, "Target")
strTemp = "This is the data that will be sent"

' Copy the string into a byte array, converting it to ASCII
Call CopyMemory(byteBuffer(1), ByVal strTemp, Len(strTemp))
cdCopyData.dwData = 3
cdCopyData.cbData = Len(strTemp) + 1
cdCopyData.lpData = VarPtr(byteBuffer(1))

' This Line Work Ok...
i = SendMessage(ThWnd, WM_COPYDATA, Form1.hwnd, cdCopyData)

'This Line Don't Work .... I NEED THIS LINE!!!
SendMessageCallback ThWnd, WM_COPYDATA, Form1.hwnd, _
cdCopyData, AddressOf SendAsyncProc, 999&

'This line work ok ....
'test call - paste clipboard contents to textbox in the same form
SendMessageCallback form.Text1.hwnd, WM_PASTE, 0&, ByVal 0&, _
AddressOf SendAsyncProc, 999&

[Tom Esh]

Yeah, I don't think SendMessageCallback will work with WM_COPYDATA.
Why not just use SendMessage in a Timer event?

On 10 Jul 2000 16:05:28 -0700, "Armando Cardenas"
<lacf@microsis.com.mx> wrote:

>
>Hi Tom, thanks for your help, but your example don't work in my program. I
>paste some of code that I use. I need to send strTemp inside the cdCopyData
>structure to target aplication in an asynchronous way:
>
>' Get the hWnd of the target application
> ThWnd = FindWindow(vbNullString, "Target")
> strTemp = "This is the data that will be sent"
>
>' Copy the string into a byte array, converting it to ASCII
> Call CopyMemory(byteBuffer(1), ByVal strTemp, Len(strTemp))
> cdCopyData.dwData = 3
> cdCopyData.cbData = Len(strTemp) + 1
> cdCopyData.lpData = VarPtr(byteBuffer(1))
>
>' This Line Work Ok...
> i = SendMessage(ThWnd, WM_COPYDATA, Form1.hwnd, cdCopyData)
>
>'This Line Don't Work .... I NEED THIS LINE!!!
> SendMessageCallback ThWnd, WM_COPYDATA, Form1.hwnd, _
> cdCopyData, AddressOf SendAsyncProc, 999&
>
>'This line work ok ....
>'test call - paste clipboard contents to textbox in the same form
> SendMessageCallback form.Text1.hwnd, WM_PASTE, 0&, ByVal 0&, _
> AddressOf SendAsyncProc, 999&
>


-Tom
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[Tom Esh]

Yeah, I don't think SendMessageCallback will work with WM_COPYDATA.
Why not just use SendMessage in a Timer event?

On 10 Jul 2000 16:05:28 -0700, "Armando Cardenas"
<lacf@microsis.com.mx> wrote:

>
>Hi Tom, thanks for your help, but your example don't work in my program. I
>paste some of code that I use. I need to send strTemp inside the cdCopyData
>structure to target aplication in an asynchronous way:
>
>' Get the hWnd of the target application
> ThWnd = FindWindow(vbNullString, "Target")
> strTemp = "This is the data that will be sent"
>
>' Copy the string into a byte array, converting it to ASCII
> Call CopyMemory(byteBuffer(1), ByVal strTemp, Len(strTemp))
> cdCopyData.dwData = 3
> cdCopyData.cbData = Len(strTemp) + 1
> cdCopyData.lpData = VarPtr(byteBuffer(1))
>
>' This Line Work Ok...
> i = SendMessage(ThWnd, WM_COPYDATA, Form1.hwnd, cdCopyData)
>
>'This Line Don't Work .... I NEED THIS LINE!!!
> SendMessageCallback ThWnd, WM_COPYDATA, Form1.hwnd, _
> cdCopyData, AddressOf SendAsyncProc, 999&
>
>'This line work ok ....
>'test call - paste clipboard contents to textbox in the same form
> SendMessageCallback form.Text1.hwnd, WM_PASTE, 0&, ByVal 0&, _
> AddressOf SendAsyncProc, 999&
>


-Tom
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[mrfelis]

Have you looked into PostMessage?

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Armando Cardenas <lacf@microsis.com.mx> wrote in message
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>
> I'm using SendMessage API to send messages between two applications in the
> same machine, but, I need to do this process in an asynchronous way. I'm
> probing replacing sendmessage API with the sendmessagecallback API, but
i'cant
> make that sendmessagecallback API send the message. The SendMessage API is
> working well. I know that I should define a callBack Function, I think
that
> its Ok, but I dont know why I can't send and recive the message using
sendmessageCallBack
> API.
> Can somebody help me?

[mrfelis]

Have you looked into PostMessage?

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Armando Cardenas <lacf@microsis.com.mx> wrote in message
news:396a141f$1@news.devx.com...
>
> I'm using SendMessage API to send messages between two applications in the
> same machine, but, I need to do this process in an asynchronous way. I'm
> probing replacing sendmessage API with the sendmessagecallback API, but
i'cant
> make that sendmessagecallback API send the message. The SendMessage API is
> working well. I know that I should define a callBack Function, I think
that
> its Ok, but I dont know why I can't send and recive the message using
sendmessageCallBack
> API.
> Can somebody help me?

[Tom Esh]

The MS docs warn not to use PostMessage for WM_COPYDATA. I suppose it
makes sense - since it doesn't wait for the message to be processed,
the data could go out of scope before it's processed (nasty). There is
no similar warning for SendMessageCallback, but it just doesn't work.

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:19:33 -0400, "mrfelis"
<mrfelis@yahoo.NOSPAM.com> wrote:
>Have you looked into PostMessage?
>
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>~~~
>C'Ya,
>mrfelis
>mrfelis@yahoo.NOSPAM.com
>just remove the spam
>Armando Cardenas <lacf@microsis.com.mx> wrote in message
>news:396a141f$1@news.devx.com...
>>
>> I'm using SendMessage API to send messages between two applications in the
>> same machine, but, I need to do this process in an asynchronous way. I'm
>> probing replacing sendmessage API with the sendmessagecallback API, but
>i'cant
>> make that sendmessagecallback API send the message. The SendMessage API is
>> working well. I know that I should define a callBack Function, I think
>that
>> its Ok, but I dont know why I can't send and recive the message using
>sendmessageCallBack
>> API.
>> Can somebody help me?
>
>


-Tom
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[Tom Esh]

The MS docs warn not to use PostMessage for WM_COPYDATA. I suppose it
makes sense - since it doesn't wait for the message to be processed,
the data could go out of scope before it's processed (nasty). There is
no similar warning for SendMessageCallback, but it just doesn't work.

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:19:33 -0400, "mrfelis"
<mrfelis@yahoo.NOSPAM.com> wrote:
>Have you looked into PostMessage?
>
>--
>~~~
>C'Ya,
>mrfelis
>mrfelis@yahoo.NOSPAM.com
>just remove the spam
>Armando Cardenas <lacf@microsis.com.mx> wrote in message
>news:396a141f$1@news.devx.com...
>>
>> I'm using SendMessage API to send messages between two applications in the
>> same machine, but, I need to do this process in an asynchronous way. I'm
>> probing replacing sendmessage API with the sendmessagecallback API, but
>i'cant
>> make that sendmessagecallback API send the message. The SendMessage API is
>> working well. I know that I should define a callBack Function, I think
>that
>> its Ok, but I dont know why I can't send and recive the message using
>sendmessageCallBack
>> API.
>> Can somebody help me?
>
>


-Tom
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