Capturing text from a window

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Can anyone tell me if there is an easy way to capture the text from a window
that is running in an external application?

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Paul Bromley
 
Paul Bromley said:
Can anyone tell me if there is an easy way to capture the text from a
window
that is running in an external application?
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P/invoke on 'SendMessage' + 'WM_GETTEXT' will work for Windows' standard
controls if you have the control's handle. You can use
'FindWindow'/'FindWindowEx'/... to get a control's handle.
 

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