How I can get control's id property via api

[Marco2250]

Hi all. How I can get control's id "(Name)" property of a control of other process (vb6 app) via windows api? Please, help me. Thx in advance. Best Regards, Marco Alves.

[Programm3r]

Sorry, Marco ... i'm gonna sound stupid, but i'm not sure what you mean? Could you be more specific? :confused: :doh:

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[Marco2250]

first, thank you for your reply. Sorry, because I've a bad english. But trying to do my best. :) Okay, suppose I have a VB6 app. I put a listview on my form and name it lvwProducts. Now, I compile and run this simple app. Now, in another app (a C# .NET 2005 app) I want do get the name of that listview, i.e., the name of the listview that is on another process (my vb6 app). First, I got the handle. with the listview handle I want to get its name. get it? Ah, I've downloaded a code from http://blogs.msdn.com/brianmcm/ but it only works if the listview is on an .NET process. but, in my case, the other process was written in vb6. to use that code I do something like that: string controlName = GetWinFormsId.WinFormsUtilities.GetWinFormsId(hWnd) // where hWnd is the handle of my listview. the code is here (sorry, I don't know how to format the code here): ********************** using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Text; namespace GetWinFormsId { /// /// Summary description for WinFormsUtilities. /// public class WinFormsUtilities { private static int GetControlNameMessage = 0; static WinFormsUtilities() { GetControlNameMessage = NativeMethods.RegisterWindowMessage("WM_GETCONTROLNAME"); } public static string GetWinFormsId(IntPtr hWnd) { return XProcGetControlName(hWnd, GetControlNameMessage); } protected static string XProcGetControlName(IntPtr hwnd, int msg) { //define the buffer that will eventually contain the desired window's WinFormsId byte[] bytearray = new byte[65535]; //allocate space in the target process for the buffer as shared memory IntPtr bufferMem = IntPtr.Zero; //base address of the allocated region for the buffer IntPtr written = IntPtr.Zero; //number of bytes written to memory IntPtr retHandle = IntPtr.Zero; bool retVal; //creating and reading from a shared memory region is done differently in Win9x then in newer OSs IntPtr processHandle = IntPtr.Zero; IntPtr fileHandle = IntPtr.Zero; if (!(Environment.OSVersion.Platform == PlatformID.Win32Windows)) { try { uint size; //the amount of memory to be allocated size = 65536;

[Programm3r]

Yeah, I get it .... but I'm sad to say that I have no idea, how to accomplish this... :confused::confused: ...

Have you tried to google it???

Good Luck Sorry I couldn't help

Only programmers that are better than C programmers are those who code in 1's and 0's..... :) :) Programm3r

[Mila025]

Hi, I don't know what is your goal, if you already have handle to the list. But a bit info about interprocess communications you can find e.g. here: Interprocess Communication[^] Shared Memory Through Memory-mapped Files[^]

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[Marco2250]

My goal is to confirm if the control name of the current hWnd is the name that I want to.

[David Crow]

If you have the control's window handle, compare its ID using GetDlgCtrlID().

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