Ok, this is what I need to do:

Let's say I know I'm going to recieve an instant message on AIM from a specific person. Because I know who it is from, I know the title of the window, so I can get a handle to it using FindWindow(). What I need though, is some way to get the text that was sent to me in that instant message. GetWindowText() doesnt seem like it will work, IndirectGetWindowText() is Win 2000 specific, I don't really know what to do.

Any thoughts? Is it possible? You can just throw a function name at me if you are lazy, I'll figure out what I need, just need to get started.

Imp

some functions

you can try

or

i looked up some other function

and i looked up the sendmessage params
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default..../wm_gettext.asp
that link should help :)

GetWindowText() will not work because it says it won't get text of controls owned by other windows or something, I don't know. All it seems to do is return the title of the window.

InternalGetWindowText() will not work because as my post said, it only compiles under Win2K or something, it won't compile at all for me.

I'll check out GetDlgItemText()

[EDIT]

For GetDlgItemText() -

Parameters

hDlg
[in] Handle to the dialog box that contains the control.
nIDDlgItem
[in] Specifies the identifier of the control whose title or text is to be retrieved.

How am I supposed to get nIDDlgItem?

Thanks for the replies!

use this

or if that doesnt work try the SendMessage with WM_GETTEXT

Something like this doesn't work:

Mostly because I don't know what to pass as the second parameter to GetDlgItem.

[EDIT] - What the heck do I put for that second parameter, I can't go on without it

If you mean the second parameter for GetDlgItem, that is the name of the control. Like if you create a button you define it as
#define IDB_BUTTON
So IDB_BUTTON is the 2nd parameter.

Yeah, but how can I know what the text box is called if it is not my program, and I don't have the source to it? I can't get a handle to the text box if I don't have the name of it, therefore I can't get the text from it.

Spy++ gives the handle i think in numbers. Not sure though if that will work but you can try it.

I Spy++ the text box and get this:

Handle: 001B052E
Caption: ""
Class: Ate32Class

I close the IM I sent to myself, and send myself another, and do the same thing:

Handle: 001A05EC
Caption: ""
Class: Ate32Class

The handle obviously changes with every new IM that is sent. I hope I can use the class name "Ate32Class" somehow. I'll scour through msdn for a function that'll work. If anybody wants to throw together a 2-3 line example for me, that would help a lot, or any more help at all would be appreciated ^__^

[EDIT] - Seems like I can use FindWindow() for the textbox directly, then GetDlgItemText(). I'll see if I can throw something together that'll work.

[EDIT 2] - Nope, FindWindow will not return a handle to the textbox given the class name. Arg.

Basically, it comes down to: How do I get a handle to a textbox control in another application.

30 min later:

PROBLEM SOLVED.

Here's the code I used:

I sent myself the message 'Testing .. 1 .. 2 .. 3', you can see it in the results below, in the big chuck of html there. Basically, it spits out every child window it can find. I'll just have to refine it, should be easy.


RESULTS:

THANK YOU FOR ALL HELP!