> I am trying to get the contents of a control in a window, say a TextArea > control or a List or a button etc. > I can programmatically get the window its in and then the controls handle by > enumming the child windows of that window. > I cannot get the contents of that control. > I'm a tester and I need to be able to confirm the contents programmatically > before moving on with the test. > I know there are 3rd party applications out there that can do it so it must > be possible but I cannot use these it has to be python (unless there is a > Python one that I have missed?). > I have dug through the python forums and not found anything so far. > I thought that since this was all about win32 it would be the best place for > an answer or example.
have you tried win32gui.GetWindowText(hwnd) ? you may note that the msdn api reference specifies 3 arguments for this function, but pywin32 takes only one, the hwnd. dont know why, but it certainly makes the function much easier to use... -d _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
