Getting child windows handle

[PankajB]

Hi There. I have a Dialog based Application: Title "ABC Application" I want to launch this appiication and then want to set an edit box available on this window with some text. This is what I am doing right now.

ShellExecute(NULL, L"open", L"C:\\Program Files\\ABC.exe", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

HWND WndOST2PST = NULL;
WndOST2PST = ::FindWindow(NULL,L"ABC Application");

if(WndOST2PST == NULL)
return false;

//Need to get handle for child windows

//SetWindowText(WndOST2PST, L"Pankaj");

SendMessage(WndOST2PST, WM_DESTROY, 0, 0);

I am not able to get handle of that specific edit control. Please provide some pointers for the same. Thanks PanB

[Sophiya Chen]

hi,you'd better get the window handle from one variable. the dialog title may be not right in this course.

[Sarath C]

you can do this by EnumChildWindows API. See the See the sample snippet[^]

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[sonu saini 76 gmail com]

Try this

CString Text;
CWnd *pWnd = FindWindow(NULL, "Title");
CWnd *pChildWnd = pWnd->GetWindow(GW_CHILD);
while(pChildWnd)
{
UINT uiID = pChildWnd->GetDlgCtrlID();
pChildWnd->GetDlgItemText(uiID, Text);// To get caption
pChildWnd->SetDlgItemText(uiID, "Test"); //To set value into edit box

   pWnd->SendMessage(WM\_COMMAND, MAKEWPARAM(uiID, BN\_CLICKED), (LPARAM)pChildWnd->m\_hWnd);// To click on the control
   pChildWnd = pChildWnd->GetWindow(GW\_HWNDNEXT);
}

[sonu saini 76 gmail com]

Use this to set data into text box

SendMessage(_Edithwnd, WM_SETTEXT, 0, (LPARAM)strCaption);