GetWindowText - what should it return for IE Window?

[MikeB941]

Hello:

I was hoping to use GetWindowText to pull in all the text from an application up in an IE browser window. While GetWindowText works great when I point it to notepad, I don't get much (if anything) back from an IE browser window...

Is GetWindowText supposed to return all the visible (not graphic) text in an IE browser window?

Thanks for any help!

[Marcus Tettmar]

No. GetWindowText will look at all objects exposed by a window and return any text exposed by those objects. If those objects don't expose text, you won't get anything. The text inside IE's WebBrowser control is not that kind of text - it is rendered graphics. The only way to retrieve text from a web page is to use WebRecorder or VBScript to drive IE's Document Object Model.