Getting handle of child windows where Enumchildwindows failing

Getting handle of child windows where Enumchildwindows failing

• SBORA

  <Manas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
  news:410a56de-074f-4358-890e-e298b2613acf_WBRev3_@discussions.microsoft.com
  > But my requirement is to identify , traverse and manipulate the
  > controls present on the dialog box.
  >
  >       Now as you have informed me that they are fake , so is there
  > any way ( documented or non-documented) to make me know what controls
  > are present on the dialogbox or not. Is there any way by using DLL
  > Message Hooking or some other under the hood trick.

   

  None that I know of.
  --
  With best wishes,
      Igor Tandetnik

  
  

• Tommy0204

  <Manas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
  news:5670a5f7-6baf-4b88-8d5b-fec315f461c9_WBRev1_@discussions.microsoft.com
  >        I am writing an application to traverse and manipulate child
  > controls of any dialog box present on the screen.
  >        But in some dialog boxes like  WordCount dialog box in
  > Microsoft Word ( Tools - WordCount) , i am unable to get the handle
  > of the child controls using EnumChildWindows. 
  

  That dialog does not have any. All controls on it are windowless. In other words, they are fake, not real windows (HWNDs), just painted on a dialog with regular GDI calls. MS Office uses a library of these windowless controls, to reduce footprint on system resources.
  --
  With best wishes,
      Igor Tandetnik

  
  

• Michael Entin - MSFT

  Thank you very much for the reply.
  
  But my requirement is to identify , traverse and manipulate the controls present on the dialog box.
  
        Now as you have informed me that they are fake , so is there any way ( documented or non-documented) to make me know what controls are present on the dialogbox or not. Is there any way by using DLL Message Hooking or some other under the hood trick.
  
             Or i assume that in dialog boxes in which EnumChildWindows fails , then we can't have by any means the information about the controls present on the dialog.
  
  
  Please help me with this..
  
  Thanks
  Mohit Manaskant
  

• anotherstupiddisplayname

  Try ActiveAccessibility. IAccessible::get_accChildCount and IAccessible::get_accChild will enumerate accessible children.
  
  
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