So turns out if you want to peer into the contents of one of these controls inside another application, its a real pain in the butt. Never fear, for I have conquered this beast. If you want to include this in any auto it libraries or what not, feel free! These functions work by putting the contents of the control into the clipboard, which you can then get via ClipGet() in your AutoIt scripts. This is some butt-ugly code, but it works. I know I've had several projects on hold until this