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How would I get a handle to the label? I've used FindWindow() to get the 
window handle, but I'm not sure how to get handles to its children?

"Alan Bellingham" <alanb@episys.com> wrote in message 
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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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