Global hooking to Cwnd::Create using MHook

Question

I have been trying to hook to CWnd::Create method. I tried to hook using SetWindowsHookEx api. But this is not working consistently. So, I have followed the following blog http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/49319/Easy-way-to-set-up-global-API-hooks and tried to hook to CreateWindowEx api.

Here, I am not sure whether CreateWindowEx will be called from Cwnd::Create API.

Can we hook to Cwnd::Create procedure using MHOOK? If so hooking to CreatWindowEx is the right api to listen to Cwnd::Create calls?

Answer 1

Please go through this link http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/e71f690a-00de-4032-95e2-21660e2235f6/setwindowshookex-on-windows-7

Not all keyboard and mouse hooks are marshalled, only globals. And marshaling of hook is performed by thread message queue. So, thread that installs hook MUST call message pumping method.