Grab and pass text to another programs textbox field

B

brad

I need to know how to grab text from and enter text into another
running programs textboxes. I dont know where to begin to look.
 
Z

zacks

Grabbing data from a screen is done using the technique commonly known
as "screen scraping". Pasting it into another app's window is usually
done with SendKeys, but that is really ugly.
 
H

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

brad said:
I need to know how to grab text from and enter text into another
running programs textboxes. I dont know where to begin to look.
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Keywords: P/invoke (platform invoke), 'FindWindow', 'FindWindowEx',
'EnumWindows', 'EnumChildWindows', 'GetWindowText', ...
 

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