Forums Developers A C++/api question

Hiya, I'm trying to use a C++ app to read the text in an open channel (i.e the channel window is open and Restored or maximized). I can get the HWND of the channel window, but neither GetWindowText or SendMessage( , WM_GETTEXT, ...) work (they both return the window caption). Does anyone know a way to access the stored text?

(I realise that this many have already been answered, somewhere, but I haven't seen it)

Thats because GetWindowText retrieves the caption for windows that are overlapped (and include the WS_CAPTION style). The actual test is stored internally by mIRC and cant be accessed directly that i know of.

You can use SendMessage and some script (namely $lines etc..) to retrieve the text. It would of course be faster if you could access mIRC's internal buffer but for now at least it works.

erm, how, exactly? Lines'll get the data, but I can't get it out of the program

By using SendMessage( hWnd, WM_MEVALUATE, 0, 0) with a mapped file containing the line to evaluate. See /help SendMessage for the details.