How to get the control identifier of Windows dialogs (Views: 29)
Problem/Question/Abstract: How can I get the identifier of a given control, which is part of a predefined windows dialog such as open/ save dialogs? I need to alter text in the edit control and/ or alter captions on buttons before the dialog closes. Can this be accomplished with API calls and/ or messages to the dialog in question? Answer: With WinSight for example. Anyway, there are some of them (Open/ Save dialog controls ID's): "Look in" - ID 1137 , classname "ComboBox" "Files of type" - ID 1136 , classname "ComboBox" "File Name" - ID 1152 , classname "Edit" "Help" - ID 1038 , classname "Button" "Open" - ID 1 , classname "Button" "Cancel" - ID 2 , classname "Button" "Open as Read only" - ID 1040 , classname "Button" The usage - for example, to alert the text of "File name" Edit - is like this: { ... } var MyText: string; begin MyText := 'Hello!'; SendMessage(Windows.GetParent(Self.Handle), CDM_SETCONTROLTEXT, 1152, Integer(PChar(MyText))); { ... } |