Re: Safely reading text from HWND
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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// To avoid MFC:
// Get text length
int numChars = GetWindowTextLength(hwndUnknown);
// Note: If the HWND is in a different thread, the text could have
changed
// after we called GetWindowTextLength() and before this call to
GetWindowText()
// Not sure how MFC works around this issue; I suspect it doesn't.
// Get Text
TCHAR buf[nNumChars+1]; // +1 for NULL
GetWindowText (hwndUnknown, buf, _countof(buf));
Hi David,
Just a little note: I think that you can't define an array like you did,
because nNumChars is a run-time value, so the compiler can't reserve space
for that array at static (compile time).
(Of course your general idea is nice!)
I would use std::vector for the dynamic array, e.g.
std::vector< TCHAR > buf( nNumChars + 1);
GetWindowText( hwndUnknown, &buf[0], buf.size() );
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks,
G
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