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What happens is that if the application I'm trying to close has a dialog box 
(modal window) open, then Windows thinks it was terminated incorrectly when 
I send it the WM_CLOSE message.  I was just thinking I could close all the 
dialogs and then send the WM_CLOSE to the parent window to close it 
gracefully.

I'll have to investigate your suggestions below, thanks a lot.


"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message 
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> "Jeff" <Jeff@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> I'm trying to search through another application's client area and click
>> any "Cancel" or "Close" buttons found in an attempt to safely close
>> the application.
>
> Just send WM_CLOSE and/or WM_QUIT messages to the main windows instead. 
> You
> don't need to deal with the buttons just to close the application.
>
>> I can't seem to find a way to click another application's buttons
>
> You have to send a WM_COMMAND message to the button's parent window,
> specifying BN_CLICKED.  Or a BM_CLICK message to the button itself.
>
>> or find them for that matter.
>
> That is because you are not looking correctly.
>
>> I tried ... getting the text using GetWindowText() but Microsoft states,
>> "However, GetWindowText cannot retrieve the text of a control in
>> another application."  How do I do this?
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> That is correct.  GetWindowText() needs you to pass it a memory address to 
> a
> buffer that will receive the text.  A memory address in one application is
> not a valid memory address in another application.  You would have to 
> write
> a custom DLL and then use DLL injection, such as with a message hook via
> SetWindowHookEx(), to force the DLL's code to run in the context of the
> other application.  Then the DLL can use GetWindowText() and copy the text
> back to the application, such as with WM_COPYDATA.
>
>>  char *ptr_chrText = ""; //Control text
>
> That won't work.  You are not allocating a memory buffer to receive the
> text.  You are pointing to a string constant that is located in the
> application's read-only memory.
>
>>  POINT pPoint;   //Coordinate structure
>>  WINDOWINFO WinInfo;     //Window information structure
>>  WinInfo.cbSize = sizeof(WINDOWINFO);
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>>  if (!GetWindowInfo(hParentWin, &WinInfo)); //Get the dimensions of the
>> window
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> Get rid of all of that.  Use GetWindow() or EnumChildWindows() instead.
>
>
> Gambit
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