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Reputation: 390

Inserting text with SendMessage

When I try to paste text in textbox another program, the text is inserted, but the program does not recognize it.

 [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
 static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint Msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);
 const uint WM_SETTEXT = 0x000C;

 IntPtr text = Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemUni("100");
 IntPtr thisWindow = FindWindow(null, "AnotherWindow");
 IntPtr handle = FindWindowEx(thisWindow, IntPtr.Zero, "AnotherTextBox", null);
 SendMessage(handle, WM_SETTEXT, IntPtr.Zero, text);
 Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(text);

Maybe I should send to the parent a message that the textbox is updated? Like this: 

 //Wrong code, because I do not know how correctly send a message
 SendMessage(handle, WM_COMMAND, EM_SETMODIFY, handle);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3971

Answers (3)

PedPak
PedPak

Reputation: 177

some Textboxes have been set so that you can not set your text by WM_SETTEXT immediately, especially those which accept digits and perform calculation according these digits. I had similar problem and solved it by bellow code. I applied WM_PASTE, EM_REPLACESEL to conquer that.

SendMessage(child, WM_SETFOCUS,0 , IntPtr.Zero);  // go to text box
System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetText("1");   // set something in clipboard. it does not matter what it is.
SendMessage(child, WM_PASTE, 0, IntPtr.Zero); // paste to get control of text box
SendMessage(child, WM_SETTEXT, IntPtr.Zero, string.Empty);  // clear textbox to insert your desired text.
SendMessage(child, EM_REPLACESEL, IntPtr.Zero, "your text"); // insert your desired text. i inserted digits as text.

you need to Import user32.dll file at first:

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = false)]
    private static extern int SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint msg, IntPtr wParam, string lParam);

    [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = false)]
    private static extern int SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint msg,int  wParam, IntPtr lParam);

Upvotes: 0

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Reputation: 390

And again...help came from another site

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint Msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);
//...
IntPtr boo = new IntPtr(1);
SendMessage(handle, EM_SETMODIFY, boo, IntPtr.Zero);

Upvotes: 1

Jonathan Potter
Jonathan Potter

Reputation: 37202

You'd be looking to do something like:

PostMessage(GetParent(handle), WM_COMMAND, MAKEWPARAM(GetWindowLong(handle, GWL_ID), EN_CHANGE), (LPARAM)handle);

Upvotes: 1

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