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How to send message to another program?

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  • R RichardWdy

    Thank you. I want to run another dialog program. It has several edit controls. I want to fill the edit controls automatically, which requests send message to the edit control. I tried several ways, but I couldn't get the handle of the edit control. The following is my code. HWND h = ::GetDlgItem(hDlg, ID_EDIT_START); // hDlg is the handle of the dialog. h return NULL. Could you tell me what's wrong? How can I perform that? Richard Woo No pains, no gains.

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    Hello, How you get the handle to dialog? did you use the GetWindow methode described in the firts posts? To get the handle to another app(eg your another dialog app) you have to search for window´s caption and compare with your target window´s caption. Once you have the window´s handle you can call GetDlgItem to retrieve a handle to dialog items. I can send you two tests apps that explain it better.

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      Hello, How you get the handle to dialog? did you use the GetWindow methode described in the firts posts? To get the handle to another app(eg your another dialog app) you have to search for window´s caption and compare with your target window´s caption. Once you have the window´s handle you can call GetDlgItem to retrieve a handle to dialog items. I can send you two tests apps that explain it better.

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      I can get the handle of the dialog and the ID of the edit control. But the edit control only has ID, not caption. I do use GetWindow() to enumerate the desktop windows. It's a good way that can replace FindWindow function. My problem is I don't know how to use ID of the control to get the handle. I tried several functions, as GetDlgItem, GetDlgCtlID,... Could you give me further information? Thanks a lot. Richard Woo No pains, no gains.

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        I can get the handle of the dialog and the ID of the edit control. But the edit control only has ID, not caption. I do use GetWindow() to enumerate the desktop windows. It's a good way that can replace FindWindow function. My problem is I don't know how to use ID of the control to get the handle. I tried several functions, as GetDlgItem, GetDlgCtlID,... Could you give me further information? Thanks a lot. Richard Woo No pains, no gains.

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        Send me your two tests dialog apps.

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        • W Williams

          Send me your two tests dialog apps.

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          I send you 2 apps. Plx check. Thanks a lot. No pains, no gains.

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          • R RichardWdy

            I send you 2 apps. Plx check. Thanks a lot. No pains, no gains.

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            Williams
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            you say its ok? I dont understand what do you want. whats is wrong so!?

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            • W Williams

              you say its ok? I dont understand what do you want. whats is wrong so!?

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              I don't know why it works! Just before I sent you the 2 apps, it showed "Not Found". HWND g_FindSpecialControl(LPCSTR lpWndCap, int nIDDlgItem) { HWND hWnd; int nID; hWnd = FindWindow(NULL, lpWndCap); if (hWnd == NULL) return NULL; hWnd = GetWindow(hWnd, GW_CHILD); while (hWnd != NULL) { hWnd = GetWindow(hWnd, GW_HWNDNEXT); nID = GetDlgCtrlID(hWnd); if (nID == nIDDlgItem) return hWnd; } return NULL; } It's strange! No pains, no gains.

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                I don't know why it works! Just before I sent you the 2 apps, it showed "Not Found". HWND g_FindSpecialControl(LPCSTR lpWndCap, int nIDDlgItem) { HWND hWnd; int nID; hWnd = FindWindow(NULL, lpWndCap); if (hWnd == NULL) return NULL; hWnd = GetWindow(hWnd, GW_CHILD); while (hWnd != NULL) { hWnd = GetWindow(hWnd, GW_HWNDNEXT); nID = GetDlgCtrlID(hWnd); if (nID == nIDDlgItem) return hWnd; } return NULL; } It's strange! No pains, no gains.

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                Williams
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                Its really very strange, I didn´t no changes but the path to test dialog.Now I think that there is nothing more to do!:cool:

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                • W Williams

                  Its really very strange, I didn´t no changes but the path to test dialog.Now I think that there is nothing more to do!:cool:

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                  Sorry about my troubling you. I have to send my whole project to you. Plx take some time to help me. Thanks. Richard Woo No pains, no gains.

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                  • R RichardWdy

                    Sorry about my troubling you. I have to send my whole project to you. Plx take some time to help me. Thanks. Richard Woo No pains, no gains.

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                    Ok. I will try.:)

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                    • W Williams

                      Ok. I will try.:)

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                      Have you received my email with the 2 programs? No pains, no gains.

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                      • R RichardWdy

                        Have you received my email with the 2 programs? No pains, no gains.

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                        Williams
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                        No. try again.

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                        • W Williams

                          No. try again.

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                          Hi, I tried another way and it did work! I used EnumChildWindows function to enumerate all child windows of the dialog and I could get the handle of the edit control through a callback function. Thanks for help. Richard Woo No pains, no gains.

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                          • R RichardWdy

                            Hi, I tried another way and it did work! I used EnumChildWindows function to enumerate all child windows of the dialog and I could get the handle of the edit control through a callback function. Thanks for help. Richard Woo No pains, no gains.

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                            Congratulations! Glad to know you! :-D

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