Thread: Retrieving the text from an edit box

Chrishowarth, before you just decide to "jump into" winapi programming, first learn the basics, i.e. how the Message Queue works and what SendMessage actually does. I'd suggest theForger's winapi tut, you can find it in the stickies at the top of this forum.

I've almost finished my app, and I'm learning more from creating this than I did with the tutorials. Of course I read the tutorials, but making a program is helping me understand it.

Thanks! ; my code does compile now with that function. I'm not quite sure what it returns though, because if i try to use the variable I assign to it I get the error "Invalid convertion from 'UINT' to 'char*'