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How do I determine inactivity in a MVVM application?

I have an MVVM kiosk application that I need to restart when it has been inactive for a set amount of time. I'm using Prism and Unity to facilitate the MVVM pattern. I've got the restarting down and I even know how to handle the timer. What I…
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Read on-screen text from external app. API Hooking?

I have a Java background so have limited knowledge when it comes to C# and C++. Basically I am trying to "read" text from another application which is displayed on screen... To be specific, I want to read the dealer chat message from Pokerstars...…
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SetWinEventHook does not catch any event

It is a follow-up of this question : Alt Tab overlay Win32 identificator. I try to catch the moment when the alt-tab switch menu open (and exit), using the SetWinEventHook function from the Winuser API. However, the hook do not catch any event (e.g.…
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Hooking TNotifyEvent / looking for a proper way to use method and procedural pointers

I'm looking for easy way to create TNotifyEvent hook/wrapper So I got an idea to create it as object to make stuff easier But I have no idea how to attach / swap method pointers correctly... :/ Maybe anyone of You has done similar things…
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SetEventWinHook crashes WPF application with Stack Overflow

I am running into a problem where my application is crashing a WPF application due to EventHooking. Below is simple code that I tried and was still able to recreate the crash. This is only when running against some sort of custom tree view that has…
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UI automation and telerik controls

Most of the telerik controls are not supporting UI Automation.Is there any alternate method/approach to create a .Net tool for recording event details from telerik controls in the external wpf/window applications.
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Understanding functions hooks

This is my first post in stackoverflow, eventhough I'v been reading here for more than a year. I would like to ask some questions about function hooking, and would be really glad to have some answers. Say I created an executable and I would like to…
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How to add event hook for mouse operations in c++ win32?

I wanted to add a system foreground event hook to track the active window and track mouse clicks(right-click) within the active window. I add eventHook for EVENT_SYSTEM_FOREGROUND, which is working as expected, my hook: HWINEVENTHOOK hHook =…
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How can I hook into a close event on v-menu

I'm building a vue.js application with Vuetify 1.5.2. I have a v-menu (https://v15.vuetifyjs.com/en/components/menus) on which I would like to hook into a close event. I'm not seeing a close event in the documentation. Does anyone know if there is a…
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Hooking up .NET method for profiling purposes

Possible Duplicate: Profiling a method in C# to know how long does it take to run I need to check how long does it take to run a method. For example, I need to know how long does it take to run GetTypes() method in using System.Reflection in my…
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Cannot pass arguments to JavaScript file using config.yaml in OctoPrint events API

I am trying to pass parameters to a JavaScript file which will be executed using NodeJS. The JavaScript file contains following function: function handleEvent() { var options = { method: 'POST', url:…
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C# Exclude tooltip popups from SetWinEventHook with EVENT_OBJECT_NAMECHANGE

I'm trying to detect window title changes of AIMP music player using the SetWinEventHook and it works, the problem is that it also detects Tooltip popups when I hover over buttons with mouse (stop, play, minimize, etc). I would like to exclude these…
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WinEventHook does not catch events from specific process id

I'm creating a console process and then trying to monitor it for events with SetWinEventHook. If I use the PID associated with the process I've created, I never catch any events. If I set pid/thread to 0/0 (all processes/threads) then I get plenty…
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Discourse User-Created Event Breaks Post Creation Tests

In Discourse, I'm trying to setup a user created event hook, but when I do so, it breaks some tests related to post creation. The new event -- on another model -- seems to be causing topic_created to fire multiple times while preventing post_created…
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hook file creation in python

I'm working on a program, where in some part of it, it needs to listen to the OP for when files are created/saved, so I can work on said file. I know the basic concept of hooking, but I don't know exactly how to implement it in this specific use(I…
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