Re: Getting text from within a window

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From: Alan Bellingham
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:45

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"Jeff" <Jeff@nospam.com> wrote:

>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?

Send the message (or call GetWindowText()) with the window handle of the
label, not of its parent.

This assumes the label is a window. If not, then you're probably out of
luck unless the parent window exposes a special API for the purpose.
IIRC, the VCL TLabel is not a window, but rather something the parent
window draws when required.
Alan Bellingham
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ACCU Conference 2006 - 19-22 April, Randolph Hotel, Oxford, UK

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