Edit Box, not able to read

tejaswi teja

hi I am tejaswi . I wanted to read the contents from editboxes of a dialog window. am able to do so except for one edit box. That is apperaring on the screen as if it is read only. but not even able to copy the contents of that one manually. The caret is not coming there even if i click on the box with mouse. please tell how to read contents of it. any property is to be set or what. Thank you. Tejaswi

Laffis

Did you check the edit box 'read-only' setting? Did you check the DDX_Control has its entry? Did you call UpdateData(FALSE) at the wrong time?

Eytukan

y not u delete the control and place a new one?:~ V

David Crow

What does the code look like that is attempting to read from that edit control? Is this an MFC application?

"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb

Lost User

yes yes it is an MFC application using the Cwnd Class. first of all , the application that has created that edit control is a different one. not under our control. i am j ust trying to read from the window "Histograms" generated by that application( Vims Configuration Tool). I am trying to do this by using available functinos like FindWindow("Histogram"),GetTopWindow(),GetNextWindow().. like that getting all controls and then using SendMessage(WM_GETTEXT...). and now the problem is for the window that is disabled(seems to be i dont know exatly) but data is visible. i am not even getting a handle to it .some other windows that are disabled i found using a function sth like CSnd:: isEnabled .but in that list also the one i am talking about is not there. -- modified at 3:27 Friday 23rd September, 2005

David Crow

tejaswi_teja wrote: ...now the problem is for the window that is disabled(seems to be i dont know exatly) but data is visible. Whether a window is disabled or not, you can still read text from it. If you really need to know its enabled state, use IsWindowEnabled().

"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb