Get Text From Other-Forms TextBox

[TheMapf]

Hey dudes! :)

I need help with retrieving text from a texbbox...it's not in my 'own' form
i want to get the text from a AIM-chatwindow...

played around a lil bit with WM_GETTEXT, but it's tooooo diffcult 4 me, i'm almost new to the c++ genre, so i would be very very happy if anyone of you could help me to realize this idea

[george135]

> so i've googled a lot...with almots no result

You're not serious...
It has been explained millions of times on Win32 groups (http://tinyurl.com/cmhb5g and others)
(WM_GETTEXT being inter-process)

[TheMapf]

HI! :)

thanks for your respond
but I'm serious dude :D
i've read somewhere thats it's possible ..some kind of interaction with a dll (don't know which)

in winspector when i focus the control, which have a content like "hello" or something else....and rightklick the control in the list and let me show the properties ...voila there's something like

Text: Hello

in the messagewindow i get the wm_gettexlenght and the wm_gettext messages..with the text!

so how that's possible?! there MUST be some way to get the text with wm_gettext

if not... do anyone knows how i can realize it? i've searched in the autohotkey source for the function "ControlGetText" (exactly givin' me the result i want to have, but not in c++ -.-)
...i can't find it there in the source