String Max Capacity?

[KarlosTHG]

Hi guys, i'm trying to get the text of a window to parse this and get some parts but when it has more 32kb of text, cannot get the entire text, what can i do?

sorry for my english

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

what function do you use?

Mega

[MrCreatoR]

Indeed, WinGetText() has a limit of 32 kb, not 64 as remarked in the help file:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <EditConstants.au3>
;

$GUI = GUICreate("Test Script", 300, 200)

$nEdit = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 20, 40, 260, 120)
GUICtrlSendMsg($nEdit, $EM_LIMITTEXT, -1, 0) ;This one will remove the text limit in Edit control

$sData = ""

For $i = 1 To (32 * 1024) + 100 ;32768 + 100 = 32868
    $sData &= "a"
Next

GUICtrlSetData($nEdit, $sData)

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $GUI)

$sWinGetText_Data = WinGetText($GUI)
$sControlGetText_Data = ControlGetText($GUI, "", "Edit1")
$sGUICtrlRead_Data = GUICtrlRead($nEdit)

MsgBox(48, "*GetText Test", _
    StringFormat("WinGetText()\t\t= %i -> Limited up to 32kb? (32 * 1024 = 32768)\nControlGetText()\t\t= %i\nGUICtrlRead()\t\t= %i", _
        StringLen($sWinGetText_Data), StringLen($sControlGetText_Data), StringLen($sGUICtrlRead_Data)))

Or it's a wrong check?

Edited May 30, 2009 by MrCreatoR

[trancexx]

It's about unicode, so 64KB is ok to say.

Interesting thing is that the limit is set not with used function SendMessageW(WM_GETTEXT) but later on. Buffer is filled fully for every control and truncated afterwards.

[KarlosTHG]

hi again, thanks for your interest but nobody has an idea to bypass this problem, this is an example for understand me better:

i load a program

this program has a control (edit, label)

this control has so many text, over 100k

i need to get that text in my script and parse it to get some parts

autoit get the text but only 32k and the other text is missing

maybe with APIs or a dll

someone has an idea

[KarlosTHG]

yes im sorry but this pc is behind a proxy and that proxy show me and error and i think the message was not send

[martin]

yes im sorry but this pc is behind a proxy and that proxy show me and error and i think the message was not send

Maybe you could use the message EM_GETLINECOUNTand then get every line in a loop using EM_GETLINE.

[KarlosTHG]

Maybe you could use the message EM_GETLINECOUNTand then get every line in a loop using EM_GETLINE.

ok, i will to test it, thanks

[martin]

ok, i will to test it, thanks

I think it will work. I had a quick play like this, (apologioes for messy script modified from MrCreatoR's, but I'm off to bed!)

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#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
  #include <EditConstants.au3>
  #include <SendMessage.au3>
;
  
  $GUI = GUICreate("Test Script", 300, 200)
  
  $nEdit = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 20, 40, 260, 120)
  GUICtrlSendMsg($nEdit, $EM_LIMITTEXT, -1, 0);This one will remove the text limit in Edit control
  
  $sData = ""
  
  For $i = 1 To 33
      for $j = 1 to 1023;(32 * 1024) + 100;32768 + 100 = 32868
      $sData &= "a"
  Next
  $sData &= @CRLF
  Next
  
  GUICtrlSetData($nEdit, $sData)
  
  GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $GUI)
  
  $sWinGetText_Data = WinGetText($GUI)
  $sControlGetText_Data = ControlGetText($GUI, "", "Edit1")
  $sGUICtrlRead_Data = GUICtrlRead($nEdit)
  
  MsgBox(48, "*GetText Test", _
      StringFormat("WinGetText()\t\t= %i -> Limited up to 32kb? (32 * 1024 = 32768)\nControlGetText()\t\t= %i\nGUICtrlRead()\t\t= %i", _
          StringLen($sWinGetText_Data), StringLen($sControlGetText_Data), StringLen($sGUICtrlRead_Data)))
  
      $LInes =  _SEndmessage(controlgethandle($gui,"",$nEdit),$EM_GETLINECOUNT)
      ConsoleWrite($lines & @CRLF)
  
      $sbuf = DllStructCreate("char[3000]");set to some length more than expected line length
      $sTC = dllstructcreate("wchar",DllStructGetPtr($sBuf))
      dllstructsetdata($sTC,1,3000)
      $chars = _SendMessage(controlgethandle($gui,"",$nEdit),$EM_GETLINE,32,dllstructgetptr($sbuf));read line 33
      ConsoleWrite($chars & @CRLF);the no of chars returned
  ConsoleWrite(Dllstructgetdata($sBuf,1) & @CRLF);the line read

EDIT: This is not needed due to my misunderstanding of MrCreatoR's example above (post #3), so it is better to use ControlGetText.

Edited June 2, 2009 by martin

[MrCreatoR]

hi again, thanks for your interest but nobody has an idea to bypass this problem, this is an example for understand me better:

i load a program

this program has a control (edit, label)

this control has so many text, over 100k

i need to get that text in my script and parse it to get some parts

autoit get the text but only 32k and the other text is missing

maybe with APIs or a dll

someone has an idea

But what about ControlGetText(), it's has no limit as far as i tested (with 100 kb as well)...

[martin]

But what about ControlGetText(), it's has no limit as far as i tested (with 100 kb as well)...

Oh, I thought your script was showing that the same limit applied. In that case ignore my post.