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Nostalgia .Net • WinEvent

Component for tracking low-level system-wide events


"The Microsoft Windows operating system includes a feature, called WinEvents, that enables processes and applications running on the Windows desktop to exchange certain types of information. Accessibility tools that use Microsoft UI Automation and Microsoft Active Accessibility are among the primary users of the WinEvents.

In the context of accessibility, UI Automation providers and Microsoft Active Accessibility servers use WinEvents to notify clients of changes in an application UI, such as when a UI element has been created or destroyed, or when an element name, state, or value has changed."

(From MSDN)


WinEvent is very powerful, but unappreciated, so, for instance, we can found using of the system-wide hook for tracking the mouse position, but there is no examples of WinEvent using for the same purpose. WinEvent can, for example, track the mouse cursor changes throughout the system, report changing of size and position of any window in the system, track switching active windows and much more. Of course, native Win32 way is not most simple and convenient, but Nostalgia .Net has special WinEvent component that allows to have all the power of WinEvent and to have no problems with coding at the same time.

WinEvent components offers many specialized events:

SystemAlert Occurs for system alert events.
WindowForeground Occurs when foreground window is changed.
MenuStart Occurs when menu is started.
MenuEnd Occurs when menu is closed.
MenuPopupStart Occurs when popup menu is started.
MenuPopupEnd Occurs when popup menu is closed.
CaptureStart Occurs when mouse is captured.
CaptureEnd Occurs when mouse capture was released.
MoveSizeStart Occurs when window is being moved or resized.
MoveSizeEnd Occurs when the movement or resizing of a window has finished.
ContextHelpStart Occurs when window has entered context-sensitive Help mode.
ContextHelpEnd Occurs when window has exited context-sensitive Help mode.
ScrollingStart Occurs when scrolling has started on a scroll bar.
ScrollingEnd Occurs when scrolling has ended on a scroll bar.
SwitchStart Occurs when the user has pressed ALT+TAB, which activates the switch window.
SwitchEnd Occurs when the user has released ALT+TAB.
MinimizeStart Occurs when a window object is about to be minimized.
MinimizeEnd Occurs when a window object has been minimized.
ObjectCreate Occurs when object has been created.
ObjectDestroy Occurs when object has been destroyed.
ObjectShow Occurs when hidden object is shown.
ObjectHide Occurs when object is hidden.
ObjectReorder Occurs when container object has added, removed, or reordered its children.
ObjectFocus Occurs when object has received the keyboard focus.
ObjectSelection Occurs when selection within a container object has changed.
ObjectSelectionAdd Occurs when child within a container object has been added to an existing selection.
ObjectSelectionRemove    Occurs when item within a container object has been removed from the selection.
ObjectSelectionWithin Occurs when numerous selection changes have occurred within a container object.
ObjectStateChanged Occurs when object's state has changed.
ObjectLocationChanged Occurs when object has changed location, shape, or size.
ObjectNameChanged Occurs when object's Name property has changed.
ObjectValueChanged Occurs when object's Value property has changed.
WinEventHook Occurs for each WinEvent event.


In addition to events Nostalgia .Net declares special enum types for using instead of Win32's constants in event handlers, so you don't need to use numeric constants even in handler of raw WinEventHook event.

Just activate component at runtime from your code and enjoy:

    winEvent.Active = true;
Some of WinEvent component's features are demonstrated in special demo project (click to see full-size image):

WinEvent Demo


As you can see in the demo source codes, you need only several lines of native C# code to access all the power of WinEvent.


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