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From: Gary Setter
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:43

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"Jeff" <Jeff@nospam.com> wrote in message
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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);
>
Can you get the handle of the lable? Maybe you can tell use a bit more about
how you have set things up.

Gary

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