I am writing a program that will interface with AOL Instant Messenger.
 This program needs to see the messages coming into the chat window. 
I have tried using EM_GETTEXT, and this has not worked.  I'm thinking
maybe they are using a proprietary window.  Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by joseleon-ga on 25 Sep 2003 23:33 PDT

Hello, zombyw00f:

  What programming language are you using? I will try to post some Delphi examples.

Regards.

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Clarification of Question by zombyw00f-ga on 26 Sep 2003 00:24 PDT

Either C++ or Visual Basic would do.  Thank you.

Hello, zombyw00f:

  Here is the C++ code that extracts the text from the AIM Chat
Window, if there is a problem or it doesn't fit your needs, please,
don't hesitate to request for a clarification, I will keep working on
it until you get the desired results:

HWND handle;
HWND child1;

//This is the buffer used to the text
//Customize it to your needs
char buffer[2000];	


//Tries to find the Chat Window
handle=FindWindow("AIM_ChatWnd",NULL);

if (handle)
{
  //Tries to find the Chat Log window, which is the first child
  child1=GetWindow(handle,GW_CHILD);
  if (child1)
  {
    //Gets the text
    SendMessage(child1, WM_GETTEXT, 2000, (LPARAM)buffer);

    //Shows it
    //The returned text is HTML
    MessageBox(0,buffer,"Text",0);
   }
  }

Be aware of the word wrapping when copying/pasting this code.

Regards.

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Request for Answer Clarification by zombyw00f-ga on 14 Oct 2003 13:01 PDT

Thank you for your response.  I require 2 clarifications:

a) How do you know which chat window you are in.  In other words, is
this the chat with person A or person B?

b) Most importantly, I need an example in VB as well, since I no
longer have access to a C++ programmer.

I appreciate your help with this matter.  Thanks again!

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Clarification of Answer by joseleon-ga on 14 Oct 2003 14:19 PDT

Hello, zmobyw00f:

  Regarding to know the chat window, that depends on the
implementation of your software, I don't know how do you plan to do
it, but you can distinguish between windows by the caption and modify
this line of code:

handle=FindWindow("AIM_ChatWnd",NULL); 

And change NULL to the caption of the Chat window you want to get the
text.

And regarding the VB code, I'm sorry, I'm not proficient in VB, I can
try to adapt it, but you will need to wait a bit, it's OK for you?.

Keep on requesting clarifications until you get satisfactory results,
I'm here to help you.

Regards.

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Request for Answer Clarification by zombyw00f-ga on 14 Oct 2003 14:42 PDT

If you could have it for me within 2 weeks, that would be fantastic!

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Clarification of Answer by joseleon-ga on 14 Oct 2003 23:31 PDT

Hello, zmobyw00f:

  I will try to do it.

Regards.

Maybe you can work around actually interfacing with the AIM window,
and using the Windows API to use the clipboard copy-and-paste feature,
where it copies the AIM text after every new msg and pastes it into a
label or textbox in your application?