Can't get any form of identifier for this control.

[koyeall]

I've been developing an IntelliSense like program with AutoIt for use in a programming IDE. The only problem is, AutoIt's Window Info Tool won't give me the correct handle to get the text in the edit box! It appears to use "Afx:400000:81," but that doesn't work when I tried it with ControlGetText(), and WinGetText() won't get the text either. Anyone know what's going on here?

[erebus]

First of all you are not reporting / providing the program which controls you are trying to spy.

Secondly, the Info Tool trys to do its best with the window handles. There are controls that cannot be read properly - I know that for sure.

So if this is the case, you are just bricked.

[enaiman]

When everything fails you can still use the old method (see where the focus is and use tabs and arrows to go where you want or send Alt keystrokes). I'm sure you can imagine a workaround.