Question

I am a newbie working towards developing an IE extension that would appear as an overlay in certain webpages. I am getting started by creating a simple BHO in VS2008 (using C++), but I am wondering how UI may be incorporated within the project. Any ideas? Just to give you an idea, I'm looking for overlays similar to what was developed by stickis http://www.stickis.com/faq/

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Solution 2

Using CreateWIndowEx() was what I was looking for :)

OTHER TIPS

You have two real options:

1> Inject your UI into the page as HTML. 2> Overlay your UI (using Windows graphics APIs) over top of the page.

Neither of these is super-simple, I'm afraid. Unfortunately, doing UI is usually the hardest part of building IE addons.

The key question is whether you need a BHO at all. Between context-menu extensions and IE8 Accelerators, you may find that you can let IE do all of the heavy lifting. See www.enhanceie.com/ie/dev.asp for more info.

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