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Article #5506Re: Getting text from within a window
From: Jeff
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:51
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:51
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Thank you, I'll look into this. "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message news:42fa3d58@newsgroups.borland.com... > > "Jeff" <Jeff@nospam.com> wrote in message > news:42fa2cc5@newsgroups.borland.com... > >> 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? > > After you get the handle of the window that the label belongs to, you need > to then get the handle of the label itself. Only then can you access the > label directly and do whatever you want with it. Look at FindWindowEx(), > EnumChildWindows(), or GetDlgItem() to retreive the label's handle. If > the > label is not placed on the window directly, but rather is on a container > such as a panel, then you will have to drill down the parent/child > hierarchy > until you reach the container that the label is actually in. > > > Gambit > >
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X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,148e8a2231e7af2d X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "Jeff" <Jeff@nospam.com> Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi References: <42fa2cc5@newsgroups.borland.com> <42fa3d58@newsgroups.borland.com> Subject: Re: Getting text from within a window Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:51:24 -0600 Lines: 29 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.68.195.202 Message-ID: <42fa5ab9$1@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1123703481 198.68.195.202 (10 Aug 2005 12:51:21 -0700) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!news-peer-test!btnet!newsfeed.bt.es!caladan.landsraad.net!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail