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Article #16539Re: Click a button on another application
From: Dubhglas
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 09:43
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 09:43
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Excellent! It works perfectly! I used GetDlgItem because I am not very familiar with EnumChildWindows. Thank you so much for your help! "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3eb6927d$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > > "Timothy H. Buchman" <tbuchmanPLEASE(at sign)REMOVEcitycenter.org> wrote in > message news:3eb64fa0$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > > > Here's a fine comprehensive answer by Gambit: > > Not quite as conprehensive as needed - it doesn't explain how to obtain the > HWND for the button in the first place. You have to do that first before > you can do anything else with it. Use FindWindow() to get the HWND for the > main window of the application, and then either EnumChildWindows() or > GetDlgItem() to get the HWND of the particular button on that window. In > the case of GetDlgItem(), however, you need to know the button's ID first, > which you can obtain beforehand using spy tools likw Borland's WinSight or > Microsoft's Spy++ utilities, and then hard-code that ID into your code. > > > Gambit > >
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