Thanks, Clint. Steve
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From: Clinton Jeffery <[email protected]>
To: Steve Graham <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Unicon-group] Fw: OT: Scraping data from Windows app screen
Philosophically, I am a pragmatist. So when I say something like "Unicon
doesn't support GetWindowText() as a bult-in as far as I know", or "I avoid
adding non-portable proprietary API's to the language", it is not that I am
happy about not having an easy solution for you. The fact is, a number of
proprietary Win32 API's were added to Windows Unicon, specifically to support
the Windows IDE now known as wu.exe but we never planned to add the whole Win32
API.
To add access to these functions, someone has to go write a bunch of C code,
either you or me or another internet volunteer, or a student. It could be done
either as a few built-ins added to the Win32 proprietary function set, or a set
of wrapper functions that convert Unicon parameters into C and call the C API
could be bundled into a shared library and the dynamic C code loader could be
used to load them into an existing VM. But since almost no one has messed with
the dynamic C code loader on Windows, that would be an adventure, too.
Sorry that I don't have a quick and easy solution for you.
Cheers,
Clint
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Steve Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
I googled for this and found this link:
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t167359-how-to-extract-text-from-windows.html
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>It talks about Window api functions such as GetWindowText which can help.
>When I grep'd the ipl and lower directories for it, the only hits were .exe
>routines. So, I'm guessing that this api has been defined, but is not used in
>any sample programs in the ipl.
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>Any advice on how to use it?
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>Thanks again, Steve
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>________________________________
>From: Steve Graham <[email protected]>
>To: Unicon Mailing List <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 10:07 AM
>Subject: [Unicon-group] OT: Scraping data from Windows app screen
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>I need to pick up the text (field prompts and data) from a data entry
screen. Is there a utility which could do such? An array of text by
rows would be preferable, but other formats would likely suffice.
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>Thanks, Steve
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