adamandhelen

i am shelling a 3rd party app (ifoedit) from within vb and have got the handles to all buttons,listboxes etc. what i need to do is either copy the listbox text to a text file for searching or search the listbox direct (preferred). i would need to search for the phrase (Menu Language Units and then read the number shown directly after it - on the same line- (1,2 or 3 etc) if the search resulted in say,2, then i would need to continue the search from this point in the listbox for the following phrase (Language Menu Unit 1, then read the following text in the brackets eg [English] and return this as string1. continue to next line for (Language Menu Unit 2, read the text [Francais] and return this as string2.

complicated eh.

is this poss?

i have tried various send/postmessages for LB_GETTEXT but nothing seems to work. is there another way'

LB_GETTEXT is defined by const LB_GETTEXT = &H189 (got this from apilist)

thanks for your advice

adamandhelen

any ideas?

reboot

Basically, once you have the Listbox hWnd, you use LB_GETCOUNT to get the number of lines in the listbox. Then you need the size of all of them, so in a For loop (For count = 0 to Number of Lines - 1) you add together the length of each line using LB_GETTEXTLEN. Allocate this much to a String var, then in another For loop you go through the Listbox line by line using LB_GETTEXT. In your SendMessage in this loop, your wParam should be the line number in the Listbox you're on (your for loop counter) and your lParam will be the position in the string variable where this line goes. Probably you want a vbCrLf between each one also. Just add it after every line you read.

This reads all lines in the listbox. If you just want a particular line, you don't need the For loops. You still have to find the length of the line you want, allocate memory for it, and pass that line number via SendMessage.

adamandhelen

thanks for that. however, i have since discovered it is not a listbox but a listview. with the correct const i can now get the getcount. what is the equivalent listview command for LB_GETTEXTLEN and LB_GETTEXT.
http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/
the above has been quite helpful for the const but i can't find a similar expression to what is required?
thanks