execute an app when a button from another app is clicked

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basically my question is if its possible to listen the click event from another app no matter how its programmed and then execute mine (using c#), i made some examples using the spy++ utility with .net, and i know it is possible using the user32.dll and kernel32.dll, libraries that managed this kind of functions

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 02 '11 at 20:29

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You need to write a windows hook, see link1 link2 link3

answered Mar 02 '11 at 20:29

Dmitry Karpezo

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '11 at 20:27

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Check out WMI It might help you get there.

answered Mar 02 '11 at 20:27

Philippe Lavoie

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

Instead of detect when a click is made to run an application, you must detect when a particular application is launched. you can do this using two ways.

1) using the WMI check the Win32_Process class and the ExecNotificationQuery method.

2) using the PsSetCreateProcessNotifyRoutine function, this function adds a driver-supplied callback routine to, or removes it from, a list of routines to be called whenever a process is created or deleted.

additionally you can check this question How to Recognize that an Application Intends to Execute \ Run a File ?!

execute an app when a button from another app is clicked

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