I have a problem. I just started writing a program that is designed to help aol members by automatically placing people exibiting a certain behavior on the ignore list, so their text can no longer be seen. The problem is this: AOL seems to have disabled the WM_GETTEXT message for the chat window in their latest version. The WM_GETTEXTLENGTH still works as normal, but the WM_GETTEXT fails, as does the GetWindowText api call. Can anyone think of another method? I am able to highlight text and drag, or send to clipboard and paste with control codes. The problem with this is that the text is constantly scrolling up, and you have the selected-text reversal. If i was able to work around any of this, even to the point of someone having a .dll that worked, i would be most gracious