Difficult? LB_GETTEXT is unreadable.

I'm using LB_GETTEXT to retrieve text from a listbox in another application, however the results are not exactly what I could have hoped for. I'm pretty sure my code here is correct, however I remember reading somewhere that I have to use ReadProcessMemory to retrieve the text, but I'm not sure. Any ideas?

Code:

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    Dim lCount As Long, lIndex As Long
    Dim sItem As String, lLen As Long
    Dim sList As String
   
    lCount = SendMessage(hwnd, LB_GETCOUNT, 0&, ByVal 0&)
    For lIndex = 0 To lCount - 1
        lLen = SendMessage(hwnd, LB_GETTEXTLEN, lIndex, ByVal 0&)
        sItem = Space(lLen)
        Call SendMessage(hwnd, LB_GETTEXT, lIndex, ByVal sItem)
        sList = sList & vbCrLf & sItem
    Next

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Check out the .Bas file available on this link and see if it does anything for you. I found it when doing a web search for ReadProcessMemory.

http://www.codearchive.com/vbasic/Hoax60.bas

What you can do is just alias the function and change lParam. Keep your existing declaration of SendMessage, but add another one that looks like this:

VB Code:

Declare Function SendMessageString Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, [b]ByVal lParam As String[/b]) As Long

Then in the line where you actually retrieve the text, use SendMessageString rather than your other SendMessage function, and remove the ByVal you have before your sItem param. That way, you can keep the rest of the code as you've written it with no side effect, but you don't have to do any messing around with byte arrays and worrying over unicode strings and whatnot. I tested this before posting by grabbing stuff out of mIRC nickname list, so it can get the stuff out of a listbox of a non VB (and VB) app just fine.