How does StarDict Scan function work?

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I'm developing MFC application that has rich edit control in it. My problem is that, I want to hide text in rich edit control from another process (e.g., StarDict). So, I add a message handler for WM_GETTEXT to my CRichEditCtrl derived class. My handler is

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LRESULT MyRichEditCtrl::OnGetText(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
     CString str = _T("");
     tlstrcpyn((LPWSTR)lParam, str, (INT)wParam);
     return (LRESULT)str.GetLength();
}

But StarDict still can scan text in my rich edit control. I think StarDict might not retrieve text via WM_GETTEXT, it might retrieve via EM_STREAMOUT. Thus, I'd like to know how StarDict Scan function work. Could anybody help me please?

Posted 12-Sep-11 20:24pm

setsunakm

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enhzflep · Answer 1 · 2011-09-13T03:03:00

The obvious answer would be to download the program and decompile it, to see for yourself. Fortunately, StarDict is open-source, GPL'd code.

Why don't you just download the source-code and check it out for yourself?
Much easier than implementing your own custom-control that emulates the appearance of a richedit while thwarting the efforts of any program to retrieve the text for itself.

Source-forge has apparently removed the project due to copyright concerns, though it can still be found via code.google

Here's the download page: http://code.google.com/p/stardict-3/downloads/list[^]