Re: Getting edit box text.

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:58

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"Bogdan" <boprea@xnet.ro> wrote in message
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> Thanks ! It works fine, but the text in password-like
> edit boxes cannot be retrieved.Is there a way to solve this?

WM_GETTEXT works just fine for simple edit boxes that have their password
character set via the EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR message.  The actual text content
itself is still normal text, it is just displayed differently onscreen than
it is stored in the edit's memory.

> I had seen programs that can do this

They use WM_GETTEXT

> even though Windows XP has a diffierent way of storing
> password strings in edit boxes.

How so?


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