Thread: copy paste from another app

I am (once again) faced with reading text from another app. This time none of the previous methods have worked.

I can highlight the text and copy and paste it. Is there a way I can do this in an automated way to read each new line as it comes in?

Spy++ shows the control as being a AfxWnd42s.

--Bonkey

Here is what I have tried. I'm using MFC MSVC++ 6.

Code:

void CReadpsDlg::OnBrowse() 
{
	// TODO: Add your control notification handler code here
	WindowText="App Client";
		while( EnumWindows(EnumWindowsProc,(LPARAM)this) );

		Wnd = FindWindowEx( (HWND)pParentHwnd,NULL,"AfxWnd42s",NULL);
		
		CString s;
		int STRINGLEN=255;
		GetClassName(pParentHwnd, s.GetBuffer(STRINGLEN),STRINGLEN);
		s.ReleaseBuffer();

		CWnd* pWnd;
		pWnd = FindWindow( s, NULL);
		TCHAR buf[512];
		pWnd->SendMessage(WM_GETTEXT,sizeof(buf)/sizeof(TCHAR),(LPARAM)(void*)buf);

		ReadText();
}


BOOL CALLBACK EnumWindowsProc( HWND hwnd, LPARAM lParam)
{

	char *text = new char[255];
	::GetWindowText(hwnd,text,255);

	if( strstr(text,WindowText))
	{
		CReadpsDlg *myView = (CReadpsDlg *)lParam;
		myView->pParentHwnd=hwnd;
		delete [] text;
		return(false);
	}

	delete [] text;
	return(true);
}

void CReadpsDlg::ReadText(void)
{
	
	char lpBuff[255];
	int stop=0;

		for(;stop!=1;m_LastLineNum++)
		{
		DWORD dwCount = ::SendMessage(Wnd,LB_GETTEXTLEN,m_LastLineNum,0);

		if(dwCount)
		{
			memset(lpBuff,NULL,255);
			if(LB_ERR != ::SendMessage(Wnd,LB_GETTEXT,m_LastLineNum,(LPARAM)lpBuff))
			{
				if( m_LastString == lpBuff )
				{
					stop=1;
				}
				else
				{
					m_text=lpBuff;
				}
//					ProcessLine(lpBuff);
			}
			else
			{
				m_LastLineNum-=1;
				stop=1;
			}
		}
		else
		{
			stop=1;
			m_LastLineNum-=1;
		}
		}
		m_LastString=lpBuff;


}

No text is read from the control, even though there is text present.

--Bonkey