Logging Instant Messages thought vb

[Dill]

ok heres the thing...

 

I have been asked to create a program that will log all messages sent and received via "MSN Zone Messages". For those of you unfamilliar the messages are individual messages sent with the message text in what appears to be a label and a text box area for a reply.

 

i have used a simple keyboard interupt to obtain keystrokes for the reply and api calls to getwindowtext.

 

My problem is logging incoming messages. I am unsure where to start.

 

Should i be trying to intercept the message before it gets to the zm program? should i try to do some sort of capture when the message is active?

 

I think the main issue i have is I do not know how the text is being transfered or displayed.

 

Has anyone tried anything similar to this before and what is the best way arround it.

 

Thanks

 

Dill