Getting text from within a window

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From: Jeff
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:35

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I'm trying to get static text that is in a window. I've got a handle to the 
window, but every thing I've tried (i.e. GetWindowText(), WM_GETTEXT) has 
only retrieved the caption. How can I retrieve the text of a label within 
the window?

Here's a code snippet from my last attempt:

SendMessage(hWindow, WM_GETTEXT, GetWindowTextLength(hWindow) + 1, 
(LPARAM)ptr_chrTitle);

Please help,
Jeff

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