Hello:

I need some guidance in a reversing project.
The Demo of the software in question is crippled. The disabled functions are "grayed out". There are no nag screens or any way to make Sice break when the item is clicked. I thought "easy", and tryed to use the BPX ActivateMenuItem., I learned, the hard way, that the grayed out functions are not in a menu component. Rather, they are presented in a UserList component. Does anybody know some API function used to manipulate UserList? When I asked this question in C4n in the IRC, somebody asked what a UserList was. It is a component of Windows in which options are presented as lines. when you click a line it gets highlighted. If you double click it, someting happends. The Channel list of mIRC is a good example of a UserList.
Any knowledge out there?
If I can catch the program constructing the userList, I hopefully can find the function that decides if a list item should be grayed out or not and take it from there.
Thankyou

Bratsch

Hi,

Sounds like a List Box. Check out the Win32 Programmer's Reference under List Box functions.

DlgDirList
DlgDirSelectEx
LB_ADDSTRING message, etc.

Thanks, It Helped a lot. I got the name UserList from the class name I was seing in Sice when I used Hwnd to see the components of the aplication. The menu I am trying to crack IS a list box.