Extract Text from External Application into C# Application.

[anilkumar025]

Hello,
I have developed an Application in C# which extract text from external application's textbox , I am using user32.dll, The application is working fine but my problem is this - The external application's textbox contains text in unicode format, so whenever I extract text in my application it shows "??????" text. I have tried setting charset.unicode , and also used RichTextBox to show text in my application.
Please let me know how to exract unicode text from external application.

Here is code I am using


private void button1_Click(o bject sender, EventArgs e)
{
IntPtr MytestHandle = new IntPtr(0x000603 42); // address of window displaying in SPY++.



HandleRef hrefHWndTarget = new HandleRef(null, MytestHandle);


// encode text into
richTextBox1.Te xt = ModApi.GetText( hrefHWndTarget. Handle);
}

public static class ModApi
{
[DllImport("user 32.dll", EntryPoint = "SendMessageTim eout", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode )]
public static extern uint SendMessageTime outText(IntPtr hWnd, int Msg, int countOfChars, StringBuilder text, uint flags, uint uTImeoutj, uint result);


public static string GetText(IntPtr hwnd)
{
var text = new StringBuilder(1 024);

if (SendMessageTim eoutText(hwnd, 0xd, 1024, text, 0x2, 1000, 0) != 0)
{
return text.ToString() ;
}

MessageBox.Show (text.ToString( ));
return "";
}
}

Please look at image attached.. it is showing result after extraction.