Reading contents of other apps Window
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Hi all, I want to "control" an application with a second one. The app it there to control a Hardware and I don't have the code:(. It is command-based: I can write a command in a CEdit-like window, and the response is displayed in the same window. ( a Hexdump, maybe ) Is it possible to grap the contents of this window and to write ( from my own app ) into it? Somethink like enumerateWindow and then access over the clipboard? :confused: Thanks , Hardy.
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Hi all, I want to "control" an application with a second one. The app it there to control a Hardware and I don't have the code:(. It is command-based: I can write a command in a CEdit-like window, and the response is displayed in the same window. ( a Hexdump, maybe ) Is it possible to grap the contents of this window and to write ( from my own app ) into it? Somethink like enumerateWindow and then access over the clipboard? :confused: Thanks , Hardy.
If you have a handle to the (edit) control, you can use
GetWindowText()to get its contents.
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
"There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb
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If you have a handle to the (edit) control, you can use
GetWindowText()to get its contents.
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
"There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb
DavidCrow wrote:
If you have a handle to the (edit) control, you can use GetWindowText() to get its contents.
I think its not so simple. The Application ( A1 ) to control the Hardware is ready and closed. I am writing a new App ( A2 ) , in mfc, to do some extra-work. Now I want to access A1`s main window. I want to write to it and read from it from within A2. Thanks, Hardy.
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DavidCrow wrote:
If you have a handle to the (edit) control, you can use GetWindowText() to get its contents.
I think its not so simple. The Application ( A1 ) to control the Hardware is ready and closed. I am writing a new App ( A2 ) , in mfc, to do some extra-work. Now I want to access A1`s main window. I want to write to it and read from it from within A2. Thanks, Hardy.
Hardy_Smith wrote:
The Application ( A1 ) to control the Hardware is ready and closed...Now I want to access A1`s main window.
How do you expect to read from a non-existent window?
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
"There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb
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Hardy_Smith wrote:
The Application ( A1 ) to control the Hardware is ready and closed...Now I want to access A1`s main window.
How do you expect to read from a non-existent window?
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
"There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb
With closed I mean closed-source. I don't have the source. The window itselve is open, of course. Sorry, it was not clear.
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With closed I mean closed-source. I don't have the source. The window itselve is open, of course. Sorry, it was not clear.
Like I said before, get a handle to the (edit) control (using
FindWindow()), then useGetWindowText()to get its contents.
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
"There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb