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Re: Length of text in MessageBox function

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From: Richard Casten
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:43
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"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" wrote:

> The only way to gain any kind of access to the MessageBox's internals is to
> install a hook via SetWindowsHookEx() for the calling thread before then
> calling MessageBox().  When the hook notifies your code that new windows are
> being created, you can check for the specific HWND of the text field, and
> then use GetWindowDC() to get its HDC.

How would I know what is the specific HWND of the text field?
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