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GetWindowText is returning with characters that are not user entered. 16 Years Ago by BruenorBH I am using GetWindowText to take user entered data, then seperate it out into …] = "", Min[3] = "", AMPM[3] = ""; GetWindowText(GETITEM(IDC_CONVERT_TIME), ConvertTime, 8); strncpy(Hour, ConvertTime, 2); strncpy(Min… GetwindowText of c equivalent in linux? 10 Years Ago by sankubha Am developing a c programming which contains windows.h header file and GetWindowText api functions.Now i want to run it in linux.Is there is any api in linux or is there is any possiblity to run the c programming on linux. Win32 API issue - GetWindowText gives me header text... 15 Years Ago by seakayaker … to get the text from a text window. However, the GetWindowText() call keeps on getting me the text in the window… + 1; pszText = (LPSTR)GlobalAlloc(GPTR, dwBufferSize); if(pszText != NULL) { if(GetWindowText(hEdit, pszText, dwBufferSize)) { string myString=pszText; writeFile("trash11.txt… Message box text with GetWindowText 14 Years Ago by Mattokun99 … appears: [code=python] w=win32gui foreground = w.GetForegroundWindow() windowtext = w.GetWindowText(foreground) if re.search('something',windowtext) code to click the… Re: Message box text with GetWindowText 14 Years Ago by jcao219 That's what GetWindowText is supposed to do If you want to get the … Re: GetWindowText is returning with characters that are not user entered. 16 Years Ago by jephthah not sure why the trailing NULLs are a problem. they probably existed in the memory before program startup, or were initialized in some manner during execution. the first NULL after "2:00 pm" signals the end of the string. why do you care that there are more than one? anything after the first terminating NULL is not considered… Re: GetWindowText is returning with characters that are not user entered. 16 Years Ago by nucleon > I am seeing 2:00 pm listed as "2:00 pm", '\0' <repeats 17 times> Is the size of the buffer 25? Those zeros are normal. But in general, you can't use strncpy like that. It will not null-terminate the strings. To use it as a substring operator, you must do something like this: [code] strncpy(Hour, ConvertTime, 2); Hour[2… Re: GetWindowText is returning with characters that are not user entered. 16 Years Ago by BruenorBH I realize what I did wrong.. I adjusted the strncpy to: [code] strncpy(Hour, ConvertTime, 2); strncpy(Min, ConvertTime + 2, 2); strncpy(AMPM, ConvertTime + 5, 2); [/code] I did not know that those were NULL characters.. What was happening was when I brought the info back together it was coming back missing info.. from 2:00 pm … Re: GetWindowText is returning with characters that are not user entered. 16 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon [quote] [icode]char * strncpy ( char * destination, const char * source, size_t num );[/icode] No null-character is implicitly appended to the end of destination, so destination will only be null-terminated if the length of the C string in source is less than num.[/quote] [url]http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstring/strncpy/[/url]… Re: GetWindowText is returning with characters that are not user entered. 16 Years Ago by nucleon OP> In all of my googling when learning how to work with C OP> commands I found that you can use strncpy like substring No one's saying you can't. It's just that if you only do this [icode]strncpy( dest, src + start, length);[/icode] and it actually copies [i]length[/i] characters (as it often will when being used as a substr function… Re: GetwindowText of c equivalent in linux? 10 Years Ago by Moschops The short answer is yes. The longer answer is if you're doing GUI programming, I recommend you use a decent cross-platform GUI library such as QT, which is heaving with functions to do things like showing windows and reading text from them. Re: GetwindowText of c equivalent in linux? 10 Years Ago by sankubha Thanks for your reply.What is QT and how to do with QT??? Re: GetwindowText of c equivalent in linux? 10 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon [Link](http://qt-project.org/) Re: VB 2010 GetWindowText Win32 Help 12 Years Ago by amvx86 … have also tried to access this code: Private Declare Function GetWindowText Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextA" (ByVal hwnd…" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long Private Declare Function GetWindowText Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextA" (ByVal hwnd… Re: Win32 API issue - GetWindowText gives me header text... 15 Years Ago by Salem [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/announcement8-3.html[/url] Re: Win32 API issue - GetWindowText gives me header text... 15 Years Ago by seakayaker ... issue solved. I didnt realize that my function was called with a window handler. I just had to point to the edit box handler in the routine and now everything works. Re: CEdit boxes and mulitplication 20 Years Ago by Chainsaw GetWindowText, THEN do your calculation, THEN SetWindowText. Your calculation is not operating on anything. GetWindowText(z); // get the result from the source box <do math with z> SetWindowText(z); // set the result into the dest box Loading and Setting text 15 Years Ago by goody11 …{ pszText = new char[dwBufferSize]; if(GetWindowText(hEdit11,pszText, dwBufferSize)) { DWORD dwWritten;…{ pszText = new char[dwBufferSize]; if(GetWindowText(hEdit12,pszText, dwBufferSize)) { DWORD dwWritten;… Bool problem 16 Years Ago by FTProtocol … = true; Division = false; Multiplication = false; GetWindowText(hwScreen, szBuffer, sizeof(szBuffer)); strcpy(szFinalBuffer, szBuffer); strcat… = false; Division = false; Multiplication = true; GetWindowText(hwScreen, szBuffer, sizeof(szBuffer)); strcpy(szFinalBuffer, szBuffer); strcat… Get Error 'hWndDlg' undeclared(first use this function).. 16 Years Ago by BruenorBH … string values GetWindowText(GETITEM(IDC_START_TIME), StartTime, 15); GetWindowText(GETITEM(IDC_BREAK1), Break1Start, 15); GetWindowText(GETITEM(IDC_LUNCH), LunchStart, 15); GetWindowText(GETITEM(IDC_BREAK2), Break2Start, 15); GetWindowText(GETITEM(IDC_LEAVE_TIME… Appending to a txt file in my save function(Windows API) 15 Years Ago by goody11 …{ pszText = new char[dwBufferSize]; if(GetWindowText(hEdit2,pszText, dwBufferSize)) { DWORD dwWritten;…{ pszText = new char[dwBufferSize]; if(GetWindowText(hEdit3,pszText, dwBufferSize)) { DWORD dwWritten;… Appending to a txt file in my save function(Windows API) 15 Years Ago by goody11 …{ pszText = new char[dwBufferSize]; if(GetWindowText(hEdit2,pszText, dwBufferSize)) { DWORD dwWritten;…{ pszText = new char[dwBufferSize]; if(GetWindowText(hEdit3,pszText, dwBufferSize)) { DWORD dwWritten;… Win32 API Input/Output Question 16 Years Ago by BruenorBH …); Sleep(1000); GetWindowText(hWndMeetingTime, strMeetingTime, 20); GetWindowText(hWndStartTime, strStartTime, 20); GetWindowText(hWndBreak1, strBreak1Start, 20); GetWindowText(hWndLunch, strLunch, 20); GetWindowText(hWndBreak2, strBreak2Start, 20); GetWindowText(hWndLeaveTime, strLeaveTime, 20… Re: Appending to a txt file in my save function(Windows API) 15 Years Ago by goody11 …{ pszText = new char[dwBufferSize]; if(GetWindowText(hEdit,pszText, dwBufferSize)) { DWORD dwWritten;…{ pszText = new char[dwBufferSize]; if(GetWindowText(hEdit,pszText, dwBufferSize)) { DWORD dwWritten;… Font size problem 16 Years Ago by Mehh …; case WM_COMMAND: switch(LOWORD(wParam)) { case CM_FILE_SAVE: { char szFileName[MAX_PATH]; GetWindowText(hwnd, szFileName, MAX_PATH); if(*szFileName != '[') { if(!SaveFile(GetDlgItem(hwnd, IDC_CHILD_EDIT… Problems with dialog box 15 Years Ago by Mehh …case WM_COMMAND: switch(LOWORD(wParam)) { case CM_FILE_SAVE: { char szFileName[MAX_PATH]; GetWindowText(hwnd, szFileName, MAX_PATH); if(*szFileName != '[') { if(!SaveFile(GetDlgItem(hwnd, IDC_CHILD_EDIT… how to resolve these errors 11 Years Ago by me.rohitverma …key = 32;key<=127;key++) { GetWindowText(GetForegroundWindow(), title, GetWindowTextLength(GetForegroundWindow()) + 1);…key = 32;key<=127;key++) { GetWindowText(GetForegroundWindow(), title, GetWindowTextLength(GetForegroundWindow()) + 1);… can anyone help? there dont work download 16 Years Ago by tomkeeee … 0; int length = GetWindowTextLength(listFilesLocation) + 1; GetWindowText (listFilesLocation, location, length); length = GetWindowTextLength(listFilesExt) + 1; GetWindowText (listFilesExt, temp, length); strcat(location,temp); LVITEM… WM_CHAR stops working after WM_COMMAND in wndproc 15 Years Ago by Kyle Wiering …)){ //the ID is is wParam case 20: GetWindowText(button[0], pushed_button,10); lstrcat(current_string,pushed_button); …SetWindowText(hwndStatic, current_string); break; case 21: GetWindowText(button[1], pushed_button,10); lstrcat(current_string,pushed_button); SetWindowText… Re: Font size problem 16 Years Ago by William Hemsworth …"); SendMessage(hEdit, WM_SETFONT, (WPARAM)font, MAKELPARAM(TRUE, 0));[/COLOR] GetWindowText(hwnd, szFileName, MAX_PATH); if(*szFileName != '[') { if(!LoadFile(hEdit, szFileName)) { MessageBox…