How to search a window to a certian text box

[3212333222355]

Hello, im new to these here forums but im an experienced Delphi programmer. So wud up~

I was wanting to search all the child windows of a parent for specific text.

Perhaps I can for loop through all the Child Windows, and use GetWindowText() to check the text in it, but I do not know how to get all the child windows of a parent.

Any help?

 

[whosrdaddy]

use the findwindow and findwindowex functions in conjunction. look here for an example : thread102-743831

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[3212333222355]

Hmn, but thats working with MDI forums -iv'e never worked wih them

Do you think you (someone) can post an example on how get every child window of a parent, and store it in an array oh HWND? like

Children:Array of HWND;

Then from there I can loop through them and check the text using GetWindowText();

thx

 

[Zathras]

It is not clear what exactly you are working with. To get the text of all of the TEdit components on a form, you can use something like this:

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  i:integer;
begin
  for i := 0 to ComponentCount - 1 do
    if Components[i] is TEdit then
      ShowMessage( TEdit(Components[i]).Text );
end;

If that is not what you mean, perhaps you can provide a few more details.

 

[3212333222355]

heh yeah thats alot easeir because you own the forum, just use Form1.Components[] and loop through them

But what I am specificly working with is "other forums" - within an application I do not own, such as Internet Explorer.

 

[Stretchwickster]

Do you think you (someone) can post an example on how get every child window of a parent, and store it in an array oh HWND?

Have you actually tried the suggestion that whosrdaddy gave you? Try it and then post here if you have problems.

Have a look at this link if you're struggling:

http://delphi.about.com/od/windowsshellapi/l/aa060303a.htm

Hope this helps!

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