Get handles to Textboxes of other apps

[Razzle]

I know, this has been discussed yet but I none of the answers I saw worked when I tried it. Well, I want to find out, what's in the textbox of some application and change it. I think it was Aaron Young who recently posted some answer to this, but I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong.
I have the handle to the application, but
lChildWnd = FindWindowEx(lHwnd, lChildWnd, "Edit", vbNullString)
always returns zero. Where is the problem?


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Razzle
ICQ#: 31429438
What is the difference between a raven?
-The legs. The length is equal, especially the right one.

[Razzle]

Doesn't anyone know!?

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Razzle
ICQ#: 31429438
What is the difference between a raven?
-The legs. The length is equal, especially the right one.

[Serge]

Maybe that application has another child window between lHwnd and lChildHwnd. You have to check if the main window has multiple chilren before it gets to the Edit box. Using Spy++ you can find out if it does. By the way, what program are you trying to get the Textbox from? Maybe knowing the exact program (and if some of us have it installed) we can be more helpful to you.

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Serge

Senior Programmer Analyst
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ICQ#: 51055819

[Razzle]

I'm trying to get the content of an ICQ message. I want to make something for automated replies.


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Razzle
ICQ#: 31429438
What is the difference between a raven?
-The legs. The length is equal, especially the right one.

[Razzle]

maybe it would be the best to enumerate all childwindows. do you know how this can be done?
I'd need the content of the labels, too, so that I know who's the message from.


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Razzle
ICQ#: 31429438
What is the difference between a raven?
-The legs. The length is equal, especially the right one.