(windows) Are there tools for writing a wrapper around a window program?

Question

Programming

Hello. Interested in this question. There is a program. Window. (not console). Are there any tools with which one could write a shell for this program. That is, take some data from it, and manipulate it yourself. Someone did this? Or do you have an idea how to do it?

Answer 1

Any script automator such as AutoIT or xStarter can pull data out of programs and manipulate them.

Answer 2

Almost any GUI application control (form, text field, etc) is a window component that can be accessed by its handle.
an example of tuzla that does this - WinSpy ++
also has utilities for automatically testing GUI applications (such as TestComplete; an article on Habré ; I didn’t study it myself, but I saw it out of the corner of my eye), they just allow you to get the values ​​​​of form controls to check them for the expected .. .perhaps
, in them (utilities) you can just do what you have planned:
get the values ​​​​of the form fields and "process" as it should

Answer 3

If there are source codes, then you can rewrite the program and finish the GUI.

Answer 4

The idea is to understand what data is stored where and how to extract it from there. In general, without specific questions - guessing from the coffee grounds.

Answer 5

There are actually a lot of options:
- if the program is a network one, then you can intercept traffic;
- if written in Java - you can use accessibility;
- WinAPI;
- DLL Injection;
- etc.
As Vladimir Martyanov said , without specifics it is impossible to recommend anything.