Hi Martin, if notepad is the active window, here's one way which gets you the status line; remember that the status line goes away if the option for wordwrap is turned on, so you can't count on it always being present:
speak activeWindow.control(1025).window.clips.clipstext hth, Chip -----Original Message----- From: martin webster [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 7:22 AM To: aaron; [email protected]; windowseyes surport team Subject: retrieving text from a specific window? Hi all, How do I retrieve text from a specific window?. I am trying to retrieve the status line information from notepad using windowsXP, The status window has a control Id of 1025, but I can't get anything to work with this in the Immed window. I tried the following lines of code in immed, using the Clips object and this worked only whilst the cursor was at line 1 column 1. Lines of VBScript from immed: Set x = ActiveWindow.Children Set c = x.Item(3).Clips print c.count ' output 1 Speak c.Item(1) output When on first line first column "LN1 column 1". I don't really want to use the clips object as I have a window control Id. Warm regards. Martin Webster.
