by jamie da dude (1 Submission)
Category: Miscellaneous
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Fri 23rd June 2006
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
to change the word on the little start green button at the bottom
VBcoders
Private Const WM_GETTEXT = &HD
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowExA" (ByVal hWnd1 As Long, ByVal hWnd2 As Long, ByVal lpsz1 As String, ByVal lpsz2 As String) As Long
Private Declare Function SendMessageSTRING Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As String) As Long
Public Sub SetStartCaption(str As String)
Dim StartBar As Long
Dim StartBarText As Long
Dim sCaption As String
StartBar = FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", vbNullString)
StartBarText = FindWindowEx(StartBar, 0&, "button", vbNullString)
sCaption = Left(str, 5)
SendMessageSTRING StartBarText, WM_SETTEXT, 256, sCaption
Exit Sub
End Sub
Private Sub Command1_Click()
SetStartCaption Text1.Text
End Sub
Private Sub Text1_Change()
SetStartCaption Text1.Text
End Sub
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