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I am trying to retrieve text from a custom log window in Mirc, The trouble is that the hwnd is the same for the titlebar as the box that looks like a multiline edit box, and when sending the message gettext i get the text of the title bar, not the editbox. The class of the window is status and has one child which is the scrollbar, the rest of the window all has the ame hwnd. So how can i retrieve the text, any ideas?
I have had a similar problem with windows derived from the AfxWnd class and found that if you save off the clipboard and then send the window a WM_COPY message you can get the window text from the clipboard. You will then need to restore the former content of the clipboard.
I have wrapped up this functionality in the ApiClipboard and ApiWindow classes of the EventVB.dll which is available for free download from Merrion Computing Ltd
HTH,
Duncan