Copy text from a window

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Re: Copy text from a window by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 03, 2009 at 14:50 UTC
That's so sad. I need a pony. Read How (Not) To Ask A Question and perhaps provide a miniscule scintilla of context (at a minimum the frelling OS in question, for instance) and you might actually get something remotely resembling a helpful answer. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply]
Re: Copy text from a window by wfsp (Abbot) on Mar 03, 2009 at 15:55 UTC
Adapted from BrowserUk's snippet. This will print the text from any open Notepad window. See Win32::GuiTest and Win32::Clipboard. `#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Win32::GuiTest qw[FindWindowLike SendKeys SetForegroundWindow]; use Win32::Clipboard; my $clip = Win32::Clipboard(); for my $w (FindWindowLike(undef, qr{ - Notepad$}, undef, undef, undef) +){ SetForegroundWindow($w); SendKeys(q{^A^C}); print $clip->Get(); }` [download] update1: removed a debugging print statement update2: fixed link	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Copy text from a window by Jon99 (Initiate) on Mar 03, 2009 at 16:34 UTC
Thnx, it really works for Notepad. But what I want to do is to copy from an application, that has a child-window with text in it. The coping of this text is limited with the copy/paste procedure.	[reply]
Re^3: Copy text from a window by wfsp (Abbot) on Mar 03, 2009 at 16:52 UTC
There is a discussion about working with child windows in the GUI testing - tutorial	[reply]
Re^4: Copy text from a window by Jon99 (Initiate) on Mar 03, 2009 at 23:14 UTC
Re^5: Copy text from a window by wfsp (Abbot) on Mar 04, 2009 at 06:13 UTC
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Re: Copy text from a window by Anonymous Monk on Mar 03, 2009 at 14:51 UTC
try guitest	[reply]