Use Python to retrieve ListView items from another application

Question

I have an application with a ListView control ('SysListView32') from which I would like to extract data. The control has 4 columns, only text data.

I played around the following lines (somewhere on the Internet):

VALUE_LENGTH = 256
bufferlength_int=struct.pack('i', VALUE_LENGTH)
count = win32gui.SendMessage(TargetHwnd, commctrl.LVM_GETITEMCOUNT, 0, 0)
for ItemIndex in range(count):
    valuebuffer = array.array('c',bufferlength_int + " " * (VALUE_LENGTH - len(bufferlength_int)))
    ListItems = win32gui.SendMessage(TargetHwnd, commctrl.LVM_GETITEMTEXT, ItemIndex, valuebuffer)

[The above code may not be fully executable, as I have deprived it of unnecessary things. but the point is here.]

It seems to be working fine, but I have to do something wrong - I get all kinds of data buffers with zero value in the reverse order and none of the actual text content I was looking for.

Any suggestions?

Thank you
Jonathan

Answer 1

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from win32con import PAGE_READWRITE, MEM_COMMIT, MEM_RESERVE, MEM_RELEASE,\
    PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS
from commctrl import LVM_GETITEMTEXT, LVM_GETITEMCOUNT

import struct
import ctypes
import win32api
import win32gui

GetWindowThreadProcessId = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowThreadProcessId
VirtualAllocEx = ctypes.windll.kernel32.VirtualAllocEx
VirtualFreeEx = ctypes.windll.kernel32.VirtualFreeEx
OpenProcess = ctypes.windll.kernel32.OpenProcess
WriteProcessMemory = ctypes.windll.kernel32.WriteProcessMemory
ReadProcessMemory = ctypes.windll.kernel32.ReadProcessMemory
memcpy = ctypes.cdll.msvcrt.memcpy


def readListViewItems(hwnd, column_index=0):

    # Allocate virtual memory inside target process
    pid = ctypes.create_string_buffer(4)
    p_pid = ctypes.addressof(pid)
    GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd, p_pid) # process owning the given hwnd
    hProcHnd = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, False, struct.unpack("i",pid)[0])
    pLVI = VirtualAllocEx(hProcHnd, 0, 4096, MEM_RESERVE|MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE)
    pBuffer = VirtualAllocEx(hProcHnd, 0, 4096, MEM_RESERVE|MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE)

    # Prepare an LVITEM record and write it to target process memory
    lvitem_str = struct.pack('iiiiiiiii', *[0,0,column_index,0,0,pBuffer,4096,0,0])
    lvitem_buffer = ctypes.create_string_buffer(lvitem_str)
    copied = ctypes.create_string_buffer(4)
    p_copied = ctypes.addressof(copied)
    WriteProcessMemory(hProcHnd, pLVI, ctypes.addressof(lvitem_buffer), ctypes.sizeof(lvitem_buffer), p_copied)

    # iterate items in the SysListView32 control
    num_items = win32gui.SendMessage(hwnd, LVM_GETITEMCOUNT)
    item_texts = []
    for item_index in range(num_items):
        win32gui.SendMessage(hwnd, LVM_GETITEMTEXT, item_index, pLVI)
        target_buff = ctypes.create_string_buffer(4096)
        ReadProcessMemory(hProcHnd, pBuffer, ctypes.addressof(target_buff), 4096, p_copied)
        item_texts.append(target_buff.value)

    VirtualFreeEx(hProcHnd, pBuffer, 0, MEM_RELEASE)
    VirtualFreeEx(hProcHnd, pLVI, 0, MEM_RELEASE)
    win32api.CloseHandle(hProcHnd)
    return item_texts

Answer 2

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