Get text from specified position

[EssDee]

Hi

Is it possible to get text from a specified position (area) on the screen? I don't want to copy the position and get it as a picture, I need the text to put it in a text-file.

/EssDee

[martin]

Hi

Is it possible to get text from a specified position (area) on the screen? I don't want to copy the position and get it as a picture, I need the text to put it in a text-file.

/EssDee

ControlGetText might do the job.

[EssDee]

I can't see how.

Any example??

[BrettF]

Something like:

#include <WinAPI.au3>
$active = WinGetHandle ("[ACTIVE]")
$window = WinGetPos ($active)
$mouse = MouseGetPos ()
$tpoint = DllStructCreate("int X;int Y")
DllStructSetData ($tpoint, "X", $mouse[0])
DllStructSetData ($tpoint, "Y", $mouse[1])
_WinAPI_ScreenToClient ($active, $tpoint)
$x = DllStructGetData($tpoint, "x")
$y = DllStructGetData($tpoint, "Y")
_WinAPI_EnumWindowsInit()
_WinAPI_EnumWindowsChild($active, True)
For $i = 1 to $winapi_gaWinList[0][0]
    $ctrl = ControlGetPos ($active, "", $winapi_gaWinList[$i][0])
    If $ctrl[0] >= $x AND $ctrl[0] <= ($x + $ctrl[2]) Then
        If $ctrl[1] >= $y AND $ctrl[1] <= $y + $ctrl[3] Then
            MsgBox (0, "", "EUREKA!")
        EndIf
    EndIf
Next

EDIT: May, may not work. Just threw it together...

Edited January 30, 2008 by Bert