Windowless Control Buttons

[wouldbehacker]

Hello

I was wondering if anyone has investigated windowless controls ?

Tools such as Spy++ provided with VC++ cannot tap into the messages sent between these and the container. I'd like to be able to hook into the place where the 'hit area' of the button is and its status. As the buttons are just 'painted' onto the screen theres not a lot of into go on and my reversing skills are not up to the job yet.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated or if you have time I'd gladly pay for C++ code which shows a solution to the problem. Thanks !!

[Pimp.exe]

Are you using MFC? If so your activeX version may be the problem...