How to read out program window display?

hoglibogli · Post by **hoglibogli** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:02 am

Hello,I just downloaded the trial version of Robotask and I`m very happy with it so far. I was able to setup everything as I wanted except one thing:To make my little Robotask programm perfect I need to readout the display of a programm window to set a variable to yes/no. The problem is, that the displayed text in the program window that I have to readout is not displayed as text (means: is not selectable).For my problem it would be enough to readout if the text is displayed or not. Is there a way to achieve this?ThanksVincent Sorg

Post by **Oleg** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:50 am

You can read the text from input fields. For example, select the field and send this keystrokes:
{HOME}+({END})^(C)
(This means Home, Shift-End, Ctrl-C)
After this the contents of the field will be in system clipboard. You can easily store this into some variable (see "Get text" action)

hoglibogli · Post by **hoglibogli** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:00 pm

Thanks for the answer. But the actual problem is, that I can not select the text in the program window.Is there a chance to let robotask check if there is something displayed or not? It would be enough, if I could check the color of a specific display area.

Post by **Oleg** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:44 pm

Did you mean the feature of reading any text from the window, such as static texts and labels? Unfortunately, RoboTask can't do it now.

hoglibogli · Post by **hoglibogli** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:08 am

Basically thats what I´m searching for.
But as I have written before for my problem it would be enough to figure out
the color of a certain pixel in the programm window. Is there a chance to do
that?

Post by **Oleg** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:28 pm

You are not first user, who want this feature. This is in our ToDo list and, probably, we'll implement this in next release.