Sending Text to another Application using sendmessage

[rwblinn]

I want to sent text using sendmessage and wm_paste to another app like notepad or outlook memo-field. this works fine for notepad, but not for outlook or winword. what do i do wrong. I use
1/Memo1.CopyToClipboard;
to send selected text from memo field to clipboard.

2/hWndParent := FindWindow(nil, PChar(sWindow));
to find the window where the text should go. sWindow is f.e.'notepad' or 'new message' for outlook
3/hWndChild := ChildWindowFromPoint(hWndParent, point(50,50));
to get the handle of the window I want to sent text to.
4/SendMessage(hWndChild, WM_PASTE, 1, 0);
to paste the text into the window

Note: I tried using wm_char. Same result as described above

[Tonny]

According to the Win32 Programmer's Reference both wParam and lParam should be zero. So :
SendMessage(hWndChild,WM_PASTE,0,0);
If it still doesn't work then check if the data in the clipboard is in CF_TEXT format.

[osamaao]

Hi :
Try this, it may be a better aproach,

With the help of the API function GlobalAddAtom its possible to send a string via the Windows API. The function returns a number, which can be used at wParam or lParam from PostMessage (or SendMessage).

Sender:

wParam = GlobalAddAtom('string...')
PostMessage(HWnd, WM_XYZ, wParam, 0)


Receiver:

str = GlobalGetAtomName(wParam)
GlobalDeleteAtom(wParam)

Good luck, Osama.