 Delphi Tutorial - Change Your Start Button Caption |
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 Feb 15 2005, 12:02 AM
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How to change your start button caption using Delphi!
(By the way, the start button will be renamed back to "start" after you restart your computer) Here we go! 1. Create a new project in Delphi 2. Add a Button and an Edit box to your form, place them where you want. 3. Double click the button to enter the code editor so we can type code for our OnClick event. 4. The code for the OnClick event of our button should look like this: CODE procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var Handle1,Handle2:hwnd; begin Handle1:=FindWindow('Shell_TrayWnd',nil); //get the handle of the taskbar Handle2:=FindWindowEx(Handle1,0,'Button',nil); //get the handle of the start button from the taskbar SetWindowText(Handle2,PAnsiChar(Edit1.Text)); //set the text SendMessage(Handle2,Messages.WM_MOUSEMOVE,0,0); //used to refresh the caption of the start button end; 5. Alright, run the program (F9) and enjoy! The finished program should look something like this:  Just type a new caption in the text box and click on the button. Piece of cake! |
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Feb 15 2005, 07:50 AM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: 11-February 05 From: Lancaster, CA Member No.: 3,696 |
QUOTE(bureX @ Feb 14 2005, 04:02 PM) How to change your start button caption using Delphi! (By the way, the start button will be renamed back to "start" after you restart your computer) Here we go! 1. Create a new project in Delphi 2. Add a Button and an Edit box to your form, place them where you want. 3. Double click the button to enter the code editor so we can type code for our OnClick event. 4. The code for the OnClick event of our button should look like this: CODE procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var Handle1,Handle2:hwnd; begin Handle1:=FindWindow('Shell_TrayWnd',nil); //get the handle of the taskbar Handle2:=FindWindowEx(Handle1,0,'Button',nil); //get the handle of the start button from the taskbar SetWindowText(Handle2,PAnsiChar(Edit1.Text)); //set the text SendMessage(Handle2,Messages.WM_MOUSEMOVE,0,0); //used to refresh the caption of the start button end; 5. Alright, run the program (F9) and enjoy! The finished program should look something like this: Just type a new caption in the text box and click on the button. Piece of cake!  What is Delphi, where can I get it, and what is the point of changing the start button name? |
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Feb 15 2005, 02:45 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 318 Joined: 5-January 05 Member No.: 3,136 |
Delphi is a programming environment that uses Object Pascal as it's main language.
You can get a trial version at www.borland.com. The point? This tutorial shows the power of handles. Using Delphi, you can quickly gain a handle of any window/subwindow and resize it, change it's caption, make it transparent, move it around... Changing the start button caption is just an example of using handles. With handles, you can give your program the ability to react on any system event that you have gained a handle over. For example, if a user presses a key combination ALT+F1, your program will know about it and react the way you want it to. You can also get a device handle, and let your program be notified if a user connects/disconnects an USB device, etc. |
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Feb 19 2005, 01:52 AM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: 11-February 05 From: Lancaster, CA Member No.: 3,696 |
QUOTE(bureX @ Feb 15 2005, 06:45 AM) Delphi is a programming environment that uses Object Pascal as it's main language. You can get a trial version at www.borland.com. The point? This tutorial shows the power of handles. Using Delphi, you can quickly gain a handle of any window/subwindow and resize it, change it's caption, make it transparent, move it around... Changing the start button caption is just an example of using handles. With handles, you can give your program the ability to react on any system event that you have gained a handle over. For example, if a user presses a key combination ALT+F1, your program will know about it and react the way you want it to. You can also get a device handle, and let your program be notified if a user connects/disconnects an USB device, etc. Oh, ok. I'm not too familiar with programming languages. I had a hard time with JavaScript and CSS as it was, though HTML is somewhat easy for me. |
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May 1 2008, 10:59 AM
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Guest Feedbacks Group: Members Posts: 2,360 Joined: 21-September 07 Member No.: 50,369 |
Dynamic debugging
Delphi Tutorial - Change Your Start Button Caption Using Delphi 7-2007, I would like to know if there is a way to get dynamically the name of the current unite and function/procedure. Example: Including the name of the unit and function/procedure where an exception raised. This can be very helpful to locate post production bugs. -question by Sale AHMAD |
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