Could be illegal using AssociateHandle with third-party apps?

wxPython Users
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I love wxpython, it’s so powerful. It lets us take control of apps, as Microsoft Office, notepad,… for automating some tasks we use a lot. I’m ussing AssociateHandle for inserting panels of mine with my custom controls at hand.

Could we, the developers of wxpython apps, have problems on publishing soft because of the use of AssociateHandle, although the third-party binaries are not modified ?

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sesenmaister wrote:

I love wxpython, it's so powerful. It lets us take control of apps,
as Microsoft Office, notepad,.. for automating some tasks we use a
lot. I'm ussing AssociateHandle for inserting panels of mine with my
custom controls at hand.

Could we, the developers of wxpython apps, have problems on
publishing soft because of the use of AssociateHandle, although the
third-party binaries are not modified ?

No. How could it? You can't invoke Microsoft Word unless Word is
already installed and paid for.

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Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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Thanks Tim for your time and consideration.

It seems totally logical, now that you say it. But I thought that because of 2 reasons:

  1. While developing, I noticed if a crash of my app happened (unhandled) the Windows app freezed (when it’s associated).

and …

  1. Microsoft is so big and plenty of lawyers, and I haven’t found any legal reference for days about taking control by the hwnd… so I thought a possible freezing of their app would be sufficient to sue (poor)me.I was afraid of not seeing a sue-metheor comming up to planet sesenmaister.

Now I understand that my program can do wathever, while the other third-party apps are already installed and payed (if not free), and I don’t modify the binaries.

And it’s very cool to be able to use wxpython at full gas.

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2014-09-10 19:18 GMT+02:00 Tim Roberts timr@probo.com:

sesenmaister wrote:

I love wxpython, it’s so powerful. It lets us take control of apps,

as Microsoft Office, notepad,… for automating some tasks we use a

lot. I’m ussing AssociateHandle for inserting panels of mine with my

custom controls at hand.

Could we, the developers of wxpython apps, have problems on

publishing soft because of the use of AssociateHandle, although the

third-party binaries are not modified ?

No. How could it? You can’t invoke Microsoft Word unless Word is

already installed and paid for.

–

Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com

Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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