catching windows notifications

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hi to all,
i am new to windows programming,can any one help me how to catch coming notifications to task bar(eg.like one mail has come),this notifications i need to store in my buffer,so that i can send it to other linux system.

Posted 2-Sep-11 1:52am

anil03006

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Philippe Mori 3-Sep-11 8:04am

Do you really want to catch new emails and stuff like that ?

Taskbar notifications are intended to be used internally by one application. I don't know if hooking can be applicable in that case...

anil03006 4-Sep-11 7:34am

yes,i have to catch notifications(like new email,online..) coming on taskbar.from last 3 weeks am working on this but not a single step moved yet.

Philippe Mori 4-Sep-11 22:07pm

It's probably because you try to do something that the system was not designed for. Windows offer basic service for an application to put an icon and update that icon in that area but not much more. And the mecanism is intended to be used from inside the application taht put the icon there to begin with.

Philippe Mori 4-Sep-11 22:03pm

By the way, if you are new to Windows programming, you should not attempt to "hack" the system when you don't even yet know how basic things works...

If it can be done, it would be very advanced programming...

Philippe Mori 4-Sep-11 22:10pm

Have you look inside you email program if it allows to do an action when an email is received. If so, then it might be a lot simpler. Otherwise, having a mail server might possibly be a solution. I don't really know but I do think, you look in the wrong direction.

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Yvan Rodrigues · Answer 1 · 2011-09-02T06:50:00

Solution 1

It's called API hooking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooking[^]
API hooking revealed[^]
Win32 API hooking: Another reason why it might not work[^]
http://easyhook.codeplex.com/[^]
http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/W-P/system/misc/article.php/c5667[^]

Posted 2-Sep-11 6:50am

Yvan Rodrigues