How I can get the text from x,y coordinate?

[Marco2250]

Hi all. I'd search in the board how an can get text that is at the coordinate x,y (I have a flexgrid on external program and want to get the text of some row/column by its x,y coordinates. I didn't found nothing. Can someone help me? Please, help me. Thx in advance. Best Regards, Marco Alves.

[Chris Losinger]

capture the window as a bitmap, then do some OCR to try to figure out what the text is

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[led mike]

<sarcasm>Yeah, that's what he was looking for</sarcasm> :laugh:

led mike

[Chris Losinger]

that's wasn't sarcasm. text isn't stored on-screen anywhere as text. by the time the output of TextOut gets to the screen, it's just brightly-glowing dots. the only way to know what text is at x,y is if you keep track of that info as you draw it. but if you're not the one drawing it...

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[led mike]

Chris Losinger wrote:

that's wasn't sarcasm.

My reply wasn't sarcasm? :confused:

led mike

[led mike]

Stop cross-posting all your questions please.

led mike

[Chris Losinger]

i guess i mistook the direction of your sarcasm. :laugh:

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[Stephen Hewitt]

He may be able to get the text as text (without OCR) for a specific control (in his case a flexigrid). I agree that a general solution that works for any control would need to use OCR however. Active Accessibility is also an interesting possibility for controls that support it.

Steve