brennanyoung Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I am having trouble with getting text from a window. I'm trying to get the text of a code editor - something better/more complex than notepad preferably - perhaps notepad++ or (best of all) Dreamweaver. If I use the advanced mode for getting the window, I get the contents of the 'visible text' panel from window info, but all the actual text - the text I really want - appears to be a bunch of little squares (non-printable characters?). Is this a text encoding issue? How do I convert those 'little squares' into the text I actually see in the window??? What format are these little squares? Can I convert them to Unicode or ascii or something vaguely 'normal'? If there is only one character in the window, I get it just fine. If more than one, I get a 'little square'. This suggests that it might be unicode or some such. (Two bytes per char). Please can anyone help with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgAndy Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 notepad++ alos uses SciLexer, so this should work, too: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...st&p=641310 *GERMAN* [note: you are not allowed to remove author / modified info from my UDFs]My UDFs:[_SetImageBinaryToCtrl] [_TaskDialog] [AutoItObject] [Animated GIF (GDI+)] [ClipPut for Image] [FreeImage] [GDI32 UDFs] [GDIPlus Progressbar] [Hotkey-Selector] [Multiline Inputbox] [MySQL without ODBC] [RichEdit UDFs] [SpeechAPI Example] [WinHTTP]UDFs included in AutoIt: FTP_Ex (as FTPEx), _WinAPI_SetLayeredWindowAttributes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmens Peter Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Some time ago I had the same behavour. A "tab" was put in a notepad. I selected the tab (at time I didn't knew it was a tab) and pasted it in the "find" (of the notepad) I also got a little square. You might find out what it is by using asc() and chr()... Best regards, Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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