I tried ControlGetText at Edit Control and the OutputVar is blank

[wchan2122]

I need to read the text from some rows of datawindow control of PowerBuilder application,the contol class is "pbdw70NN".

I tried ControlGetText at Edit Control and the OutputVar is blank

[PsaltyDS]

PowerBuilder stuff doesn't draw controls with standard Window APIs. The best you can probably do is "{TAB}" around to the elements you want and ControlSend() a "^c" to it, then get the data from the Clipboard.

[wchan2122]

Thank a lot. I try to do it and it work for text field. however, it return null for dropdown selection field.

[wchan2122]

PowerBuilder stuff doesn't draw controls with standard Window APIs. The best you can probably do is "{TAB}" around to the elements you want and ControlSend() a "^c" to it, then get the data from the Clipboard.

Thank a lot.

I try to do it and it works for text field. However, it returns null for drop down selection field.