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Button with no hWnd

Good evening folks,
I'm building a simple application (A) that sends Strings to a textbox of another application (B). I was able to this step, but afterwards I'd like to automatically press a button placed just under the textbox. The problem is that I can't get the Handle of the Button; using "Window Detective"(similiar to Spy++), I see only the textboxes (called "TEdit", see the attachments) and no Buttons!. I'd like to add also that there's no only a Button but 3!! So, how could I press a specific Button? Is there another chance to get the Handle?
Program "target"
Window Detective screenshot

Based on the class name TEdit that's a VCL application probably coded in Delphi. The buttons are likely TSpeedButton and non-windowed. You won't be able to send them messages and they are not automatable.
Faced with this your best hope of success is to fake input. Fake the mouse click at the appropriate location on the form. It's not pretty but there's little option.

Disabling Dialog Flashing C#

I have a populated ListView dialog. If a user clicks on an option in the ListView, a new dialog is shown above the ListView.
My problems is that when I click off of the new top-most dialog (onto the ListView behind it), the new dialog's borders flash/blink several times. The icon on the taskbar also flashes. I wish to disable the flashing, but cannot find a property to change.
To show my dialog, I use the following code:
if (detail == null)
detail = new Details(opt, val, user, desc, m_l);
else
detail = null;
detail.ShowDialog();

This is intended behavior, it's because the new dialog is modal. It's drawing attention to the fact that something needs to be done.
If you need to make a non-modal form, instead of using ShowDialog(), simply use Show().

Sounds like to me you are creating modal windows each time. And you cannot resume the previous dialogs until you dismiss your new top-most window.
Take a look at this wikipedia article for information about modal dialogs.
I would advise you look at how you are creating/showing your windows.
In WPF you show windows via Show() or ShowDialog(), however, I do not know which type of ListView you are using
EDIT:
Per your comment, you want modal dialogs. The only ways I can think of even trying to remove the flashing is going into WINAPI. This doesn't seem like a job for .NET.
I want to suggest a few things:
Take a look at options for showing each window. See this MSDN page
Take a look at the options for styling each window. See this MSDN page
Reconsider your design. I know this may take a lot of work, but having so many layers of windows is kind of unappealing to most users. Ultimately, I believe this option will make your application the best.

Thank you all for your answers and guidance. I have found the best way to handle my problem.
I was using an event ItemActivated. This event was called when an a highlighted item on the ListView was clicked. This became a problem when the user would double click on an already selected item. This would cause the new dialog to show, but also flash several times.
By using the DoubleClick event instead, a single click on a selected object does nothing. A double click on either a selected or non-selected item opens the dialog without the flashes. The flashes still appear if you try to click off of the dialog box, but are not as much of an issue.

Want to create a UIContoller in a UITabController but with no tab button

I want to display an intro view (tutorial) on my monotouch app that when the user clicks on a button will take them to the main storyboard, which contains a UITabController.
I'm new to monotouch and can't work out how to do this. I'm adding an extra view that's been created to the tab bar controller in the AppDelegate.FinishedLaunching, but this always adds the button to the tab bar.
When the user has clicked the button once I don't want to show the intro page ever again, it's a one time deal (I'll save some value to disk to work this out), so I don't want to just add it to the tab controller.
Incidentally if anyone can show me where monotouch decides that it's going to start with the storyboard please let me know. The only thing I've found is the little start arrow that you drag around in XCode, but what if I have two storyboards and I want to load one based on the user being logged in or something.

You need to create simple entry ViewController with the button (Controller1). The next controller in storyboard will be the tabcontroller (TabController).
Thus you will always has the first entry screen in your application.
If you don't want to show it later than make transition from Controller1 to TabController before it is loaded. For example, override the ViewWillAppear method.
The second approach. Use this code to launch whatever you want view above all your controllers at any time:
UIViewController root= UIApplication.SharedApplication.KeyWindow.RootViewController
UIView myCustomView=new MyCustomView();
root.Add(myCustomView);
//call myCustomView.RemoveFromSuperview() and it will be dismissed

Dock Windows Forms (tabbed chat interface)

Edit for those who say to use tab control
I would love to use a tab control; yet i have no idea how to go about linking the tab control up from the main form. I would assume that I would have to do something like this:
Create Form with a blank TabControl on it, no pages created.
Create a CustomuserControl (Add -> user Control), with my controls on it.
When a new chat comes in, create a tab control Item, Tab Control Page, add the Custom Control to the Tab Control Page. Add the tab control handle to the hash table, so that when new messages come in, they can be referenced in the proper control.
But, i am so not sure how to do this. For example, I know that I can create custom events inside of the User Control, so that, for example, if each control has a 'bold' button, i can each page that has that control on it, to actually USE the button.
Yet i also need to register message callbacks, so that I can use a MessageGrabber to send data to it, and tha'ts not assigned inside of the UserControl, that's assigned programatically when a new window comes in; but since I have no controls to reference, i can't assign.
KISS Philosophy
Wouldn't it be easier to just create the form, like i do now, and then just dock that form within a window or something? So that, in essence, it's still creating the form, but it's also a separate window?
Original Question
Okay, so i'm stumped (which isn't that big of a surprise when it comes to complex C# logic lol)! What i'm trying to do is the following:
Goal: Setup tabbed chatting for new chat application.
Completed: Open new window whenever a chat message is received, or a user requests a new chat from the roster. This is working perfectly, and opens only a window when the user doesn't already have the chat open. Nice and happy there.
Problem: I dont want windows. Well, i do want A window, but, i do not want tons of separate windows. For example, our Customer Service team may have about 10 active IM windows going at one time, i do not want them to have to have 10 windows tiled there lol. I'd rather they have a single Private IM window, and all 10 tabs docked within the window.
Logic: This is my logic here, which may be flawed, i do apologize:
OnMessage: Open new chat window if one doesn't already exist; if one exists, open it as a tab within the current chat window.
SendMessage: ^^ ditto ^^
Code Examples:
if (!Util.ChatForms.ContainsKey(msg.From.Bare))
{
RosterNode rn = rosterControl1.GetRosterItem(msg.From);
string nick = msg.From.Bare;
if (rn != null)
nick = rn.Text;
frmChat f = new frmChat(msg.From, xmpp, nick);
f.Show();
f.IncomingMessage(msg);
return;
}
Note on above: The Util. function just keeps tracks of what windows are opened inside of a hashtable, that way, when messages come in, they route to the proper window. That is added with the:
Util.ChatForms.Add(m_Jid.Bare.ToLower(), this);
Command in the frmChat() form.
Library in Use: agsxmpp from: http://www.ag-software.de/agsxmpp-sdk/download/
Problem:
How can i convert this code to open inside of tabs, instead of windows? Can someone please give me some ideas, and help with that. I just can't seem to wrap my head around that concept.

Use TabControl

WPF + C# button to connect pages

I am trying to make a WPF program in VS express C# I have multiple pages/windows.
I have my main page with a nice picture and a button that says 'Start'.
I want this start button to connect to my contents page/window its called 'modules'.
For simplicity (haha) I am also using blend. I get the point of setting the on click event handler in blend then swapping over to VS. but what do I write in the gap to actually get the button to go to the module window/page. I have been reading up in my spare time and still cannot find a simple answer for an absolute beginner. I can find many samples on how to get a button to display " Hi WPF" or whatever using a text box but thats obvisously not what I want.

i want to click the button and the start page/window to change to the 'module' window/page in the exact same way as blend sketch flow changes pages, in sketch flow you can just make the button navigate to the page you want. and that's all i want to do here page1> to > page2 'module'