VB 6.0 - read the values by knowing wparam and lparam

I have a third party application that displays data in a grid and it changes with time. I am trying to build an utility in vb  to capture that data. I used spy to identify the messages. It shows "ArmReReadMessage (Registered messages)" with wparam and lparam values. I am planning to hook this message and read the data before it gets displayed to the grid. Please guide me on how to read the data from wparam and lparam values/pointers. As its a third party application and I am unaware of the structure of the data.

Hi,

wparam and lparam are really pointers to C++ UINT and LONG values respectively. In C# speak, they're pointers to uint and int. In case you're not sure what a WPARAM is, you can simply look it up where it is defined by right clicking in the C++ code and choosing "Go to definition". That takes you to this definition in windef.h.

here is the complete solution for you
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6362/Global-System-Hooks-in-NET
http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32.SendMessage

Hope this will help you

Hi,

Example 3: A message which has complex parameters, and which returns an interesting value:

/***************************************************************

*                           UWM_SET_COORD

* Inputs:

*       WPARAM: (WPARAM)(BOOL) FALSE for absolute

*                              TRUE for relative

*       LPARAM: (LPARAM)MAKELONG(x, y)

* Result: LRESULT

*	(LRESULT)MAKELONG(x, y) previous coordinate value

* Effect:

*	Sets the coordinate in the view, and returns the previous

*       coordinate.

* Notes:

*	The x,y values are added to the current position if

*	WPARAM is TRUE, otherwise they replace the current 

*	position.

***************************************************************/

#define UWM_SET_COORD_MSG _T("UWM_SET_COORD-{4E7F6EC2-6ADC-11d3-BC36-006067709674}")

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Note that I carefully document the casting that is required to get the desired WPARAM and LPARAM values. Then I know when I'm writing my method how I should cast it. Here's an example of a handler for another message, which takes a pointer to an object. 

/***************************************************************

*                       CMyView::OnAssignMyInfo

* Inputs:

*       WPARAM: ignored, 0

*       LPARAM: (LPARAM)(LPMYINFO)

* Result: LRESULT

*	Logically void, 0, always

* Effect:

*	Modifies the current view by the values in LPMYINFO

* Notes:

*	If LPMYINFO.IsValidCount is FALSE, the count field is

*	not modified

***************************************************************/

LRESULT CMyView::OnAssignMyInfo(WPARAM, LPARAM lParam)

    {

     LPMYINFO info = (LPMYINFO)lParam;

     visible = info.visible;

     if(info.IsValidCount)

        count = info.count;

     return 0; // value is ignored

    }

refer to the below link for more informtion.

http://www.flounder.com/messages.htm

http://www.bigresource.com/VB-wParam-and-lParam-wyXIqHiILX.html#Mz8LwRev8f

Hope it helps you.

Can you please point me to a code that reads the data with unknown datastructure using wparam and lparam values using vb?

Hi James,

Can you guide me to use this macro with vb6?