Difference between WM_GETTEXT and GetWindowText?

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Question:

What is the difference between sending message WM_GETTEXT and calling GetWindowText()?


Answer:

You can send WM_GETTEXTLENGTH and WM_GETTEXT message even across processes.
GetWindowText takes shortcuts, it tries to directly pass a WM_GETTEXT message to the target windows window function instead of using SendMessage. That does not work across process boundaries.

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