Reading text in another app
I have been playing with the SendMessage to interact with another app. I need to know how to read text from another app.
This app has a window with a log that I need to parse. It does not put the log to a file.If it went to a file I could just parse the file, but I can see no way to get the text from the window.
I have a FindWindow derived pointer to the window, but none of the CWnd funtions seem to help. Also, I watch the window with Spy++ and I see no events when the text updates.
Any ideas?
I wonder about your intentions on this one......
But anyway....
Look up WM_GETTEXTLENGTH to get the amount of text in the window then create a buffer and use it with WM_GETTEXT.....
Not exactly rocket science....but fun all the same
Honorable intentions
I will take a look at your suggestions.
I am writing a program to play cards. I needed to push buttons to take appropriate actions. I need to read the text because the information of what cards are delt is stored in the text. I was not trying to be secretive.
Found this little bit on MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...08/c/c0108.asp
