For some reason the toolStripButtons on a toolstrip don't have a handle when using Spy++. At the same time a toolStripComboBox on a toolStrip has handle.
I am tryign to send a message to the toolStrip buttons but I can't because thre is no handle. Is there a workaround? Why doesn't a toolstripbutton have a handle and a toolstripcombobox does?
Thanks a lot!
because a ToolStrip knows how to paint a menu item (not button) without
having to hand off the job to dedicated Windows control. It
doesn't know how to paint a ComboBox so it gladly creates a combobox
window and lets that control deal with all the nasty details of how to
drop down a list of choices, etc. It is an optimization,
minimizing the number of windows that get created, thus making it more
responsive to the user. It is an optimization that stops you from
cheating the system...
nobugz wrote:
That's because a ToolStrip knows how to paint a menu item (not button) without having to hand off the job to dedicated Windows control. It doesn't know how to paint a ComboBox so it gladly creates a combobox window and lets that control deal with all the nasty details of how to drop down a list of choices, etc. It is an optimization, minimizing the number of windows that get created, thus making it more responsive to the user. It is an optimization that stops you from cheating the system...
is there a way to talk to toolStripButtons from another .NET c# application?
Spy has the same problem you do. A button on the ToolStrip is not
a real control, it is just a picture of a button that the ToolStrip
control paints. Same with a label BTW. I don't know what
you're trying to do but if you want to click on the button with your
own program, you could click on the ToolStrip control at the "right"
position...
