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>Hope this is clear and someone can help me, thanks.
It's clear enough for me to understand you question. The hard nutt to crack
is that the text itself has to be captured, and not just the graphical
window. I don't know DOS-programming that well, but there ought to be a
function that "captures" the console's text-buffer. Else you should be able
to locate it in memory somehow (thy WinHack, and the search for one of the
words displayed in the console.
That's all I can possibly think of...

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lars <lti@delfi.dk> schreef in berichtnieuws
7tsso1$94v$1@news.inet.tele.dk...
> Hi,
>
> I want to grab the textcontent of an active DOS box.
>
> - what i DONT want is a solution that "pipes" data another way - like:
>
> dir > data.dat
>
> since this wont work with an active application - ex EDIT.EXE or another
> program running until user exits the program.
>
> What i would like is to "poll" the DOS box from my application - and get
the
> ex. 80*25 characters - and ex. display this in another way in my GUI
> application.

/////////////////////////////////

#include <windows.h>

VOID main(void)

    HANDLE hStdout;
    SMALL_RECT srctReadRect;
    CHAR_INFO chiBuffer[160]; // [2][80];
    COORD coordBufSize;
    COORD coordBufCoord;
    BOOL fSuccess;

    /*
     * Get a handle of the STDOUT screen buffer to copy from and
    */

    hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    if (hStdout == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE){
        /*error code*/
    }
    /* Set the source rectangle. */
    srctReadRect.Top = 0;    /* top left: row 0, col 0  */
    srctReadRect.Left = 0;
    srctReadRect.Bottom = 1; /* bot. right: row 1, col 79 */
    srctReadRect.Right = 79;
    /* The temporary buffer size is 2 rows x 80 columns. */
    coordBufSize.Y = 2;
    coordBufSize.X = 80;
    /*
     * The top left destination cell of the temporary buffer is
     * row 0, col 0.
     */
    coordBufCoord.X = 0;
    coordBufCoord.Y = 0;
    /* Copy the block from the screen buffer to the temp. buffer. */
    fSuccess = ReadConsoleOutput(
       hStdout,        /* screen buffer to read from       */
       chiBuffer,      /* buffer to copy into              */
       coordBufSize,   /* col-row size of chiBuffer        */

       coordBufCoord,  /* top left dest. cell in chiBuffer */
       &srctReadRect); /* screen buffer source rectangle   */
    if (! fSuccess){
        /*error code*/
    }

}


/////////////////////////////////

/////////////////////////////////

typedef struct _CHAR_INFO {
    union {
        WCHAR UnicodeChar;
        CHAR   AsciiChar;
    } Char;
    WORD Attributes;
} CHAR_INFO, *PCHAR_INFO;


> Can anyone tell me if this is possible ? - im using CreateProcess to
launch
> the external application, the dos application will always be
"windowized" -
> not a fullscreen box.

> I have looked at AllocConsole....but well...i dont really get the idea of
> this.

AllocConsole can't start a application. CreateProcess is the one you need.