On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Dan Kegel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dank@kegel.com">dank@kegel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Sadly, I've found window class IDs to not be very unique (though I've<br>
looked mostly in Wine and not Windows).<font color="#888888"><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>A long time ago (Win2K era) I wrote an application for Windows that replaced the text everywhere (that wouldn't crash the OS) with "All Your Base Are Belong To Us."� At least at the time, you could rely on the window class to differentiate between different types of windows (dialogs vs. menus vs. different types of controls).� Taking advantage of this behavior was especially important in IE, which would crash the whole OS if you changed the text of any of its menus.<br>
<br>Erich Hoover<br><a href="mailto:ehoover@mines.edu">ehoover@mines.edu</a><br>