How to clone a window

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I need to find a solution to copy and clone a system window, for example, if i open "My documents" or "www.google.com" in Firefox, i want to dcreate another widnows with the same content,
I open "my documents" = 2 "My documents" windows
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Posted 12-Aug-11 0:50am

mesiasrojo

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Simon Bang Terkildsen · Answer 1 · 2011-08-12T01:00:00

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You can use the DWM to rather easely display the contents, interacting could prove more difficult though. You would have to forward all events you get from input devices to your source window.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969540(v=vs.85).aspx[^]
I beleave there is an article about this here on the Code Project too, I just can't seem to find it right now.

Posted 12-Aug-11 1:00am

Simon Bang Terkildsen

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Espen Harlinn 6-Oct-11 10:40am

Nice idea :)

Simon Bang Terkildsen 6-Oct-11 12:27pm

Thank you, Espen. I get one now and then :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2011-08-13T17:16:00

Strictly speaking, this is absolutely impossible. If this is a window from another application and process, you don't have access to the code and data of that process — they are isolated; and the details of the other process's behavior affect the behavior of each window.

You can recursively collect all child windows of some application's main window, for each one, copy it's text, location, size and styles. So, you can roughly mimic the windows structure of source window; but this is pretty much you can do. You can even retrieve a window function of each, but it cannot help you, as each of such functions can run in the context of its own process, not in yours.

—SA