I have Further Investigated the problem and it seems the underlying problem is something in SendMessage from the API? I tried to write my own routine to retrieve the information I want. I get precisely the same results as with the WIN32::GUI Module, that is: Retrieving the item count works but attempting to retrieve the item text results in GPF in recieving App. Any Windows API C gurus out there that can point me in the right direction? Am I passing a bad parameter? I want to retrieve the displayed text of the first item of the first row in the first column. ( Not the headers )

Snippet requires Win32::API

 sub ListView_GetItem ( $$ ) { # ( $wh_Handle, $RowIndex ) 
    #constants
    use constant LVIF_TEXT          => 0x01;
    use constant LVM_GETITEMCOUNT   => 0x1004;
    use constant LVM_GETITEM        => 0x1005; #LVM_FIRST +5
    
    #types
    typedef Win32::API::Struct _LV_ITEM => qw( 
            UINT   mask; 
            int    iItem; 
            int    iSubItem; 
            UINT   state; 
            UINT   stateMask; 
            LPTSTR  pszText; 
            int    cchTextMax; 
            int    iImage;       
            LPARAM lParam;       
    );
    
    #Vars
    my $handle      = shift;
    my $index       = 0;
    my %Item        = {}; #Hash to hold Item info
    my $LV_Item     = Win32::API::Struct->new ( '_LV_ITEM');
    
    $Lv_Item->{mask}        = LVIF_TEXT;
    $Lv_Item->{iItem}       = 0;
    $Lv_Item->{iSubItem}    = 1;
 
    #LRESULT SendMessage(
    #
    #    HWND hWnd, // handle of destination window
    #    UINT Msg,  // message to send
    #    WPARAM wParam, // first message parameter
    #    LPARAM lParam  // second message parameter
    #   );  
    
    #LVM_GETITEM 
    #wParam = 0; 
    #lParam = (LPARAM) (LV_ITEM FAR*) pitem; 

    Win32::API->Import(
        'USER32', 'LRESULT SendMessage( HWND hWnd, UINT Msg, WPARAM wP
+aram, LPARAM lParam)'
    ) || die "fAILED TO IMPORT sENDmESSAGE\n"; 
    
    #works Fine
    $items = SendMessage ($handle,LVM_GETITEMCOUNT,0,0);
    print "Sendmessage saw $items items\n";
    
    #Causes GPF in Recipient 
    SendMessage ($handle,LVM_GETITEM,0,$Lv_Item) || die "Message Faile
+d $!\n";
    $text = chop $Lv_Item->{pszText};
    
    print "The text is $text \n!";
    return $text;
 }
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