Controlling a window externally

[mtest]

Lets say my little brother is well past the threshold of legally blind. I would like to make a program to automatically change the font size when a word processor starts up, or to at least call up the program and then change the font size, so he can do it by himself (he can't see the font dialog.). Alas, I have no idea how to do this. The 'font' box thingy is a fairly standard editable combobox.

Uh, just point me in the right direction, and thanks!

[scratchyrice]

Thats quite low level stuff. You would have to find the memory address or pointer of the font system, And change it using assembler.

Cheers

Scratchy

[JoseMan]

Thats quite low level stuff. You would have to find the memory address or pointer of the font system, And change it using assembler.
Scratchy

Mhh, thats a good idea, but i think u don't need assembler. But this stuff is almost hacking! But very interseting, if I got free time, so i'll will looking for this problem! Just for me!

Bye

[alex.t]

I haven't messed with this in ages, but you can use AutoIt (http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml) to script windows GUI operations - you basically mimic mouse movements, clicks, and keypresses. So you could write an AutoIt script to open a program, and then based on the program find its font dialog and change it to a high number.

The upside is this isn't assembly or anything close, it's a pretty easy-to-use language.
The downside is that you'd have to rewrite at least part of the script per-program, because different word processors have their font dialogs set up differently, opened from different menus, etc.

Still, for a quick and dirty solution AutoIt might be what you're looking for.