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

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.

Dave Kreskowiak

You can't. The control has to export the functionality to do that, and it doesn't. There is no Win32 API calls you can make to easily force the text out of the control. An alternative would be to implement a kind of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to read the text from a bitmap screenshot image.

Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

David Crow

In C#, VB, Managed C++, or VC++?

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Marco2250

In any language. If it is not possible, how I can get number of rows of a msflexgrid of a external program?

David Crow

See if this helps.

"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb