get active window's object properties according to mouse position

[Vieri]

Hi!

How can I get the properties of an object that's beneath the mouse cursor?

Suppose that an autoit script running in background has HotKeySet triggering a user function when the shift key is pressed.

What I would like to do is have the user function get the attributes of the object (if any) found beneath

the mouse cursor (eg. if the cursor is on a text button, get the object ID, name and caption and save this data to a file).

What's the simplest way of doing this?

I could get the mouse coordinates (MouseGetPos) and the current active window

(I suppose I could combine WinActive and WinList to determine the active window or simply WinGetHandle("[ACTIVE]") ?)

but I don't know how to get an object's attributes at a given x,y position (a bit like what the "control" tab displays in the Autoit "window info" application).

Help greatly appreciated.

[FireLord]

How can I get the properties of an object that's beneath the mouse cursor?

AutoIt Window Info can do it for you.

EDIT: Sorry, skipped where you mentioned it.

Edited November 19, 2007 by FireLord

[Nahuel]

Take a look here. It might help

[Vieri]

Take a look here. It might help

Yes it does. Thanks.

Unfortunately, there are many cases in which elements are not discernable. For instance, even Au3Info.exe doesn't detect more information than MozillaWindowClass1 from, say, Firefox. Also, from the "About Mozilla Firefox" window, I have not been able to retrieve, eg, the "credits" string from the homonymous button, etc.

Also, I didn't manage to retrieve tooltip text (hidden text?) from any aplication.

Are there functions other than ControlGetText for this purpose? (apart from StatusbarGetText)

In the above example regarding Firefox, how could I get, for example, the string within the URL edit box or the name of the "go to URL..." button or the tooltip text that comes up when one hovers the mouse over this button or the "File"/"Edit"/"Tools"... strings when you click the main menu options, etc.

Is this currently possible with AutoIT?