That got me going in the right direction. After unpacking the long value it is suitable to pass on to SendMessage. Many thanks!!! 


=head2 GetWindowText($hwind)

Return text of $hwind, or undef on errors.

=cut
sub GetWindowText {
    my ($hwind) = @_;

    my $len = Win32::GUI::SendMessage($hwind, 0x000E, 0, 0) or return(
+"");    #WM_GETTEXTLENGTH

    my $buf = " " x ($len + 1);
    my $addrBuf = unpack("L", pack('p', $buf));
    
    Win32::GUI::SendMessage($hwind, 0x000D, $len + 1, $addrBuf) or ret
+urn(undef);    #WM_GETTEXT

    return( substr($buf, 0, $len) );
}

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I guess the rest (catching the IE URL) will become a module some day. Please /msg me if you are interested in code before that.

/J

In reply to Re: (SOLVED) Getting the actual address of a scalar by jplindstrom
in thread Getting the actual address of a scalar by jplindstrom

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