I'm trying to programmatically open the pull-down menu, "Tools", of the F12 Developer Tools Of an instance of Internet Explorer by using a series of calls to the function PostMessage simulating the action (ALT+T) as described below.
I have the handle of the IE instance and it's children windows.
I'm using this code to simulate ALT+T which does the intended work on similar windows.
PostMessage(hDevTools, WM_SYSKEYDOWN, VK_MENU, 0x20380001);
PostMessage(hDevTools, WM_SYSKEYDOWN, 'T' , 0x20000001);
PostMessage(hDevTools, WM_SYSCHAR , 'T' , 0x20000001);
PostMessage(hDevTools, WM_SYSKEYUP , 'T' , 0xE0000001);
PostMessage(hDevTools, WM_SYSKEYUP , VK_MENU, 0xC0380001);
My problem is that I don't know what handle should I post these messages to.
I used Microsoft Spy++ to find the handle of IE Dev Tools window and it's children and I've tried PostMessaging to most of them, but no luck. the Tools menu is not opening.
I should add that (for test purposes) I have PostMessaged these combinations to the document window of the Internet Explorer and the Tools Menu of the main window of IE was opened.
I found the window handle. It's a window with class name 'ToolbarWindow32' which is a child of another window with class name'IEDEVTOOLSMENU'.
Sending the above PostMessages to this window solves my problem.
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