I've been playing around with various API calls, and I must say it's really fun.

I've got this idea for a program to autorepond to IMs on AIM that could be personalized by person. There may already be a program that does this, I don't care, I'm a programmer, I want to make one myself.

However I am unsure of how to view the text within the AIM boxes. I was looking on vbapi.com for maybe an API that could help. WM_GETTEXT looks promising, but I'm not sure how to use it (too late in the evening to get anything working ) anyway.

Am I going down the right path? can anyone lead me in the right direction with some code or examples. I'd be forever greatful.