Hooking into Java Application like in Visual C++
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Hello, under Visual C++ there are numerous examples of hooking into another application, i.e. adding one's own menus to Notepad etc. Is there a similar thing available for Java? A net search has not resulted in anything useful. What I would like to do: 1) Programmatically access the menu functions of a swing GUI in another 3rd party Java App for which I just have compiled classes, no source. I know that awt.robot can do a bit, but I am looking for more: 2) Automatically extracting text from a Java Text Field of the 3rd party app (to repeat: I have no source code for this, therefore have to "hook" into the app from outside). I have seen examples for C++ on codeproject, but nothing for Java. 3) A final challenge: adding my own menus to this 3rd party swing app. Again, possible in C++. I think impossible in Java. Thanks so much for your help! You are my last hope, literally. Kind regards, Tony
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Hello, under Visual C++ there are numerous examples of hooking into another application, i.e. adding one's own menus to Notepad etc. Is there a similar thing available for Java? A net search has not resulted in anything useful. What I would like to do: 1) Programmatically access the menu functions of a swing GUI in another 3rd party Java App for which I just have compiled classes, no source. I know that awt.robot can do a bit, but I am looking for more: 2) Automatically extracting text from a Java Text Field of the 3rd party app (to repeat: I have no source code for this, therefore have to "hook" into the app from outside). I have seen examples for C++ on codeproject, but nothing for Java. 3) A final challenge: adding my own menus to this 3rd party swing app. Again, possible in C++. I think impossible in Java. Thanks so much for your help! You are my last hope, literally. Kind regards, Tony
I belive the menus work differently in JAVA, plus i dont know wheather its "easly" possible to hook it coz the JVM has control over it. How do you want to hook it any way, from JAVA or from VC++
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