script file naming conventions

2010-03-30 Thread Jeff Weiss
I would like to mention a possible problem that I am seeing with naming files associated with scripts. The McTwit and Skype packages seem to have a file naming conflict. Both scripts have a file called history.txt. When I attempt to install one package, I am informed that the other package mus

Re: retrieving text from a specific window?

2010-03-30 Thread Tom Kingston
n "LN1 column 1". I don't really want to use the clips object as I have a window control Id. Warm regards. Martin Webster. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4986 (20100330) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

RE: retrieving text from a specific window?

2010-03-30 Thread Chip Orange
Hi Martin, if notepad is the active window, here's one way which gets you the status line; remember that the status line goes away if the option for wordwrap is turned on, so you can't count on it always being present: speak activeWindow.control(1025).window.clips.clipstext hth, Chip -O

Re: retrieving text from a specific window?

2010-03-30 Thread Aaron Smith
Martin, Take a look at the Text object. Aaron On 3/30/2010 7:21 AM, martin webster wrote: Hi all, How do I retrieve text from a specific window?. I am trying to retrieve the status line information from notepad using windowsXP, The status window has a control Id of 1025, but I can't get an

retrieving text from a specific window?

2010-03-30 Thread martin webster
Hi all, How do I retrieve text from a specific window?.  I am trying to retrieve the status line information from notepad using windowsXP, The status window has a control Id of 1025, but I can't get anything to work with this in the Immed window.  I tried the following lines of code in immed,  u