add menu item to notepad

[poohpooh]

hi i wanted to know if i am able to add menu items to notepad or any other app?
i know you can change the title name so shouldnt you be able to do this?

but only want to do it while my program is running so the new menu dont stay there

[Peter87]

The source code of notepad is not publicly available so it's not really possible. I guess it's possible to hack it somehow but that will not be easy to do. It's probably much easier to write a Notepad clone yourself that have the extra features you want.

[poohpooh]

i didnt just mean notepad i ment any program.

so there is no way to do it even if i inject a .dll into it?

to make my own menu to be able to insert my own things?

[poohpooh]

must be able to be done.

it can be done in Autoit

[poohpooh]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms647987

can that be used if im in the currentprocces?

[poohpooh]

anyone?

please

[poohpooh]

i found this cant seem to get it working

HWND hwnd = FindWindow("Notepad",NULL); 
HMENU hMenu = GetSystemMenu(hwnd,FALSE); 

if (hwnd!=NULL) 
{ 
InsertMenu (hMenu, 0, MF_BYPOSITION, 0, "EXTRA"); 

} 

[Script Coder]

It could be done, however you would have to attempt to disassemble notepad.exe, and maybe decompile it, then you could see how it works, and write your dll injection. Hope it helps :)