Re: Fetch Password Textbox in Windows 2000/XP

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From: Tom Esh (tjeshGibberish_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 03:40:57 -0500

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:16:05 +0600, "Munim.VIP"
<2Munim@MyRealBoxdotcom> wrote:

> I couldn't figure out what you've said. Like about my point of view. I
>need to retrieve from a remote application (another process), which
>WM_GETTEXT does not work. Can you help me in this respect.

Afraid not. The behavior of the core win32 "edit" control was changed
at some point (Win2K or XP) so that pw-masked text cannot be retreived
by another app. AFIK there's no way around it, which is actually a
good thing from a security standpoint.

-Tom
MVP - Visual Basic
(please post replies to the newsgroup)

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