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in thread Copy text from a window

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.

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Re^3: Copy text from a window
by wfsp (Abbot) on Mar 03, 2009 at 16:52 UTC
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      This tutorial was very helpful. This is the code I wrote: 
      use Win32::GuiTest qw( FindWindowLike
                       WMGetText );
    use strict;
    use warnings;

    my @whnds = FindWindowLike( undef, "^Fjalori elektronik shpjegues"
+ );
    if( !@whnds ){
        die "Cannot find window with title/caption Fjalori\n";
    }else{
        printf( "Window handle of calculator application is %x\n", $wh
+nds[ 0 ] );
    }
    

    my $edit_ctrl_id = 600; #Edit window, 258 Hex
    my @edit = FindWindowLike( $whnds[ 0 ], undef, "^AEditCtl32", $edi
+t_ctrl_id );
    
    if( !@edit ){
        die "Cannot find window handle for Edit control\n";
    }else{
        printf( "Edit window handle is %x\n", $edit[ 0 ] );
    }
    
    my $result = WMGetText( $edit[ 0 ] );
    print $result;

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      It runs OK, but there is nothing in the output. It seems that is so because of the window class "AEditCtl32" where I am trying to read. Does it make sense to continue in this direction, or should I try working with buffers?
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[d/l]
        I can't help I'm afraid. Now that you have some code it may be worth posting a new question. Hopefully there are monks who have more experience with this aspect of Win32GuiTest than I have. Alternatively you could try posting to the mailing list mentioned in the docs.

        Good luck.

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