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Getting text from a text field

2006-06-27Author: canadian_coder
Hi Folks;

As you might have guessed I'm pretty new to the whole Win32 programming so bear with me.

I have an application that produces a number of text fields, drop-down lists and a couple buttons. In this thread I'm hoping to find someone who knows how I can get text from a text field (or could point me to some examples or a list of functions).

Thanks!

2006-06-28Author: Vlasta
The basic way in Win32 is to send a WM_GETTEXT message to the text field. It may look like this:
TCHAR buffer[100];
SendMessage(handleToYourTextBox, WM_GETTEXT, 100, (LPARAM)buffer);

If you are using something like MFC, WTL, or .NET Framework, there also is another way specific for your framework.

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