SpQueryDlgItemText

This function queries a text string in a dialog item.

Syntax: text = spQueryDlgItemText ( hwnd, id )

Parameters: hwnd – The parent window handle. (Handle of the dialog owning the item to be queried. id – Identity of the child window whose text is to be queried.

Returns: The text string that is obtained from the dialog item.

Example Code: /* findinf1.cmd (spUtils Example Code) */ /* Starts PMSEEK to find all *.INF files on the boot drive containing */ /* the String passed as argument and writes a summery of the results to */ /* stdout. */ CALL RXFUNCADD 'spLoadFuncs','spUtils','spLoadFuncs' CALL spLoadFuncs PARSE ARG searchstr 'START PMSEEK '||spGetBootdrive||'*.INF '||searchstr CALL spSleep 1000 hwnd=spFindWindowHandle(,,X2D('FA'),,,'PMSEEK.EXE') IF hwnd=0 THEN DO    SAY 'PMSeek window not found' RETURN END DO FOREVER text=spQueryDlgItemText(hwnd,X2D('3C')) IF LEFT(text,15)='Search Complete' THEN LEAVE END SAY text SAY LEFT('',spQueryDlgItemTextLength(hwnd,X2D('3C')),'-')