Can I read text not visible by AutoitWindowInfo ?

[Noob]

The above is a screenshot of Microsoft Streets & Trips 2007. I don't know how to read the text in the grey area on the bottom. That portion of the screen usually displays a name of a street (next turn, etc). AutoIt Window Info cannot see the text as Visible Window Text, nor as a Hidden Window Text. The "grey area" is a ClassNameNN: AfxWnd704.

I tried WinGetText(), and ControlGetText(). Is there any other way to attempt to access the text, or it is just simply not doable since AutoIt Window Info cannot even see it?

[Zedna]

For this situation you can use:

- OCR (optical character recognition)

- memory UDF (read info directly from process memory)

Both solution are very complicated.

For memory reading look at this memory UDF

[Noob]

Thanks much! I don't know anything about reading memory, but I will try to read up on it.