Getting handles of controls from other apps...

[David Richardson]

What I want to do is get the handle of two text box controls and a button from another program. I have the handle of the form that the controls reside on, but I am stumped at how to get a handle to the controls.

I have thought about using EnumChild windows to search for a specific type of control on the parent form... would this help? I also know the text on the button that i want the handle of. One of the text boxs is starred out and the other is just plain text.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

David Richardson

[Serge]

You definetly can use EnumChildWindows to get all controls on the form. But the question would be, what if you have more then 2 controls on the form with the same class name. My suggestion would be to use Spy++ or some other similar program to get the sequence of controls on the form and then use FindWindowEx to get the handles of the controls.

By the way, what program do you want to get the information from? Maybe knowing that, we can put up a sample code for ya.