How can I access to objects in a third-party application?

[m samar]

Hi every one. there is a application that receives data from BTS stations and shows them as log in a grid... In order to analyze the log,I need to access to the grid.I don't know how to access and read that? in other words how can I read data shown in a third party application?

[Luc Pattyn]

Hi, you can interact with GUI parts in any app using Win32 calls such as EnumWindows, FindWindow, SendMessage and GetWindowText; it takes some knowledge of how Windows works and a lot of P/Invoke. If you haven't done this yet, you'll need to learn several new things. Use Google and look for some examples here on CodeProject. My TrayIconBuster article does something related, although the goals are different. :)

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[m samar]

Thanks for your reply I searched user32.dll API Reference for C#,the best I found is "list of some user32.dll functions.With findWindow(...) the window could be found but how access to it's objects(ex. grid,textbox).which function could help me? thanks in advance

[Luc Pattyn]

All Controls are Windows themselves. And you will have to study, you can't solve your problem by asking 100 questions here. :)

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[m samar]

ok....hmmm ... Could you please [give|refer] me some references for study? Thank you. :sigh:

[Lost User]

I think perhaps this question is beyond the scope of the forum you have posted into. In order to access the information in the third party application you need to know how that application stores the data, including the structure of the windows used to display it. By enumerating all the windows belonging to the application you may be able to get to the simple text displays, but that will not guarantee you can understand the data as it is presented. My suspicion is that you need to spend a lot of time learning the fudamentals of MS Windows before you can attempt to solve this problem. I would suggest reading anything (and everything) written by people like Mark Russinovich and Charles Petzold for a start. good luck.