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rpk2006

rpk2006

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I have two questions:

(1) I want to get the handle of any active Edit window on the desktop.
If I use GetForegroundWindow, how to determine that the handle retrieved is that of an Edit Window.

(2) If I get the handle of the Edit Window, I want to get the text contained in that Edit Window.
 
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use EnumChildWindows/GetWindowInfo/GetWindowText

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