XPost: microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion, microsoft.public.vb   
   From: dsarvas@yahoo.com   
      
   WOW!  Thanks to ALL of you, I now have just what I was looking for.   
      
   It took a little of EVERYTHING you all had to offer.   
      
   Although I still have to grab the control IDs to find all text on all   
   controls, it now works nearly instantaneously now that I don't have to   
   loop through a long range of numbers just to be sure I didn't miss a   
   control.  I still can't figure out how to get the text without the   
   IDs, but now that I can do so instantaneously using all the functions   
   you've pointed out, it's a moot point . . . for me, anyway.   
      
   Although before starting this thread I was already using   
   EnumWindowProc() and EnumChildProc() to get all the windows' handles,   
   I just couldn't seem to get to that level where I could scoop up all   
   the text from all the controls in an efficient manner.  Now I can.   
      
   The following is the code I ended up placing in the enum functions as   
   a test.   I'm still open to suggestions if anyone thinks this is not   
   the proper way to get this done, but I'm happy with the results.   
      
   And Bill, as you suggested, I gave GetDlgCtrlID() another try since   
   you were getting a return of 15 for Notepad's edit screen and I   
   wasn't.  Now I do get that value.  Not sure what happened the first   
   time I tried so thanks for the push.   
      
   Don   
      
   lastHandle = 0   
   lastHandle = FindWindowEx(hwnd, lastHandle, vbNullString,   
   vbNullString)   
   Test = GetDlgCtrlID(lastHandle)   
   lngCtrlHWND = GetDlgItem(hwnd, Test)   
   strWindowText = String(80, Chr(0))   
   SendMessage lngCtrlHWND, WM_GETTEXT, 100, ByVal strWindowText   
   strName = TrimNull(strWindowText)   
   If Len(strName) > 0 Then   
       Here's where I collect the text from all the controls that I can.   
   End If   
      
      
      
   On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:07:40 GMT, dsarvas@yahoo.com (Don) wrote:   
      
   >I'm using the GetDlgItem function to get the text from a specific   
   >control in external apps.  Works fine, but if I don't know the control   
   >ID, I create a loop (e.g. 0 to 100) to test all the control IDs in   
   >that range to find the control.  Problem is that a control can have a   
   >very large number as the ID and I enumerate through all windows and   
   >their child windows so that can create a little more delay than I want   
   >and I would never be sure my loop is a range that covers the highest   
   >control ID number.   
   >   
   >Is there an API function or a way to grab all the control ID numbers   
   >on a window rather than looping through a range of numbers to find a   
   >control that matches that ID number?   
   >   
   >Thanks,   
   >Don   
      
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