longtex Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I've been looking into wingettext() and controlgettext() usage... and while they seem to work just fine in general, I've run into a couple of apps that don't appear to be(very much) readable... so far... First is PuTTY... the functions above are fine for the opening window, but once PuTTY connects, the stuff shown in the terminal window just doesn't exist as far as even Au3info is concerned... nothing but the title bar content shows up, no text, no hidden text. I wouldn't expect to find any specific control data (although the other app, which is a somewhat similar remote terminal, from a company called MediTech, does show a number of buttons as actual controls, but the rest of the content doesn't appear at all), I would be happy to be able to see just the text, since there wouldn't be much of a trick to parse out the needed data from it. Any ideas? Nobody needs a job. Not much, anyway. Before you need a job, there's a lot of other stuff you need. More or less in order of how badly you need them: AIR, WATER, FOOD, SHELTER, CLOTHING, COMPANIONSHIP, and ACTIVITY. You've been led to believe you need money to "pay" someone else to provide those for you - all but AIR, so far. How long is it going to be before you have to "pay" for AIR, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilertoaster Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 the gettext() functions usually only work on native windows controls and windows. I think the putty terminal is neither. It is possible it takes a redirect of std::cout so it might be possible to get something using stdoutread(). If you have time to waid though the putty source and find out what kind of window is made for the terminal it might help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtex Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 (edited) the gettext() functions usually only work on native windows controls and windows. I think the putty terminal is neither. It is possible it takes a redirect of std::cout so it might be possible to get something using stdoutread(). If you have time to waid though the putty source and find out what kind of window is made for the terminal it might help...Yah, I got that about *gettext() - however, since this IS being displayed by PuTTY (and the other one) through the use of winapi's, there should be something that DOES know what the text is... in the case of the other one, it does in fact show some 20-odd button controls over four or five tabs, so there's at least SOME winapi going on... well, maybe there doesn't HAVE to be, but it's a little hard to imagine that they're handling character generation and lighting up pixels, no?Hey, thanks for the response - I appreciate it! Edited April 25, 2008 by longtex Nobody needs a job. Not much, anyway. Before you need a job, there's a lot of other stuff you need. More or less in order of how badly you need them: AIR, WATER, FOOD, SHELTER, CLOTHING, COMPANIONSHIP, and ACTIVITY. You've been led to believe you need money to "pay" someone else to provide those for you - all but AIR, so far. How long is it going to be before you have to "pay" for AIR, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilertoaster Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 If it is using winAPI's then you're correct. But for example java can make windows and controls not using the standard windows API's which have the same issue so it is possible. If putty does use Windows API then there should be some way. Is there a particular control you're trying to read other than the terminal window? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtex Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 If it is using winAPI's then you're correct.But for example java can make windows and controls not using the standard windows API's which have the same issue so it is possible.If putty does use Windows API then there should be some way. Is there a particular control you're trying to read other than the terminal window?No - in the case of PuTTY I'm happy just to see the text content. In the other (MediTech MagicWindow) I want to read patient name and account #, but again, I'd be happy just to see the text. PuTTY's not a big deal - it's open source (I think... probably depends on your definition of those two words together, but it's definitely freely available source) so it's certainly findable code. The other one is a problem... it's possible we can coerce the information, but I'm hoping to be able to capture the text some way without having to ask their clients to twist their arms... someone somewhere babbled something about reading it out of intercepted packets, but I'm not too sure about that - probably encrypted anyway. The fact that the buttons show up in Au3info as "standard" controls makes me hopeful there's some sort of avoidable obfuscation going on that can be gotten around. Nobody needs a job. Not much, anyway. Before you need a job, there's a lot of other stuff you need. More or less in order of how badly you need them: AIR, WATER, FOOD, SHELTER, CLOTHING, COMPANIONSHIP, and ACTIVITY. You've been led to believe you need money to "pay" someone else to provide those for you - all but AIR, so far. How long is it going to be before you have to "pay" for AIR, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laidback01 Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 (edited) Nice to see other people are running into similar problems. I've only written a few Meditech scripts, but they've for the most part met with good success. I cannot read anything in it either, save for what you can see. So, I navigate by sending keystrokes and kicking out reports. I would be better (in some cases) to be able to read directly from the screen, but so far, I'm not sure what's going on here. I can tell you that the window type used for meditech is mostly [CLASS:#32768]. I have a "library" I use code from - pretty much regularly, and I don't mind sharing my work, but you'll need to see if it's any use to you. I'm not really that great a coder, I just try to get stuff done. well, talk with you later, Good Luck! By the way, Automate2, an app we use as well, has the same limitations to reading Meditech Client/Server as autoIT does. So it's apparently not an easy issue to get around. I've no idea if Boston Workstation has overcome this limitation or not. Jack Edited July 21, 2008 by laidback01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmca271 Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 A slightly different track here is to get an external screen capture utility like TextCaptureX from DeskExperience which provides a simple COM interface. So for example the following will capture all text from the active window including a terminal emulator. TextCaptureX costs money though but is quite cheap ! Undoubtedly the same could be achieved in other ways at possibly increased difficulty e.g. parsing a session log or running putty from command line and parsing STDOUT etc ... $objCapture = ObjCreate("TCaptureX.TextCaptureX") $text = $objCapture.CaptureActiveWindow Regards Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daluu Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 For some apps, perhaps Putty too, you could do a mouse right-click in the area of interest, then "Select All" option then copy to clipboard then paste somewhere or extract data from clipboard using COM/OLE. The select all + copy combo could be done with right-mouse clicks and/or with keyboard shortcuts or file menu navigation. If select all is not possible, one could attempt to select text using mouse movement and left-clicks to highlight start and end text range, if you know the rectangular area to move around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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