How to get control text without a ctrl ID

[kcvinu]

Hi there,

I need to get text from another application.( A dictionary) But the text area of that program has no control ID. See this image of that program and it's window info.

[TheSaint]

So you are saying that when you select those text elements, nothing shows in the Visible Text or Hidden text tabs?

When this happens to me, i try to use Send commands like TAB, RIGHT, DOWN, etc and then combinations like CTRL and HOME or END, including SHIFT, followed by a copy to clipboard of the highlighted result.

That presumes, that you can actually highlight the respective text and use CTRL-C  .... i.e. Send("^c")

P.S. Or you might be lucky, and the Dictionary might have an SDK or command-line options.

Edited February 13, 2015 by TheSaint

[Danp2]

Looks like an embedded IE control. Have you tried accessing it with the _IE functions?

[kcvinu]

Hi 

TheSaint,

Thank you. But i didn't get your point. What do you mean by SDK of dictionary ? Where i can get it and how can i work with it ?

[kcvinu]

Hi 

Danp2

Thank you for the reply. But i don't know how to work with IE functions. If there is any example scripts that work with such fuctions, please give me the link. 

[TheSaint]

If there is an SDK, it would be available from where the Dictionary has been provided, most likely.

Danp2 could well be onto something though, which could effectively be like using an SDK.

[TheSaint]

Look in the UDF (last) section of the AutoIt Help file, plus there would be a lot of examples available from a search here at the forum.

[kcvinu]

Hi 

TheSaint

Thanks.