Re: access the text being generated in other windows

2005-07-20 Thread bmgz
algebraist wrote: is there a way python can access the text being generated in other windows, by other programs/processes? my guess- you will probably have to resort to some rather downright dirty screen scraping. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: access the text being generated in other windows

2005-07-20 Thread algebraist
yeah, someone else mentioned getting the window's handle (can use spyxx.exe for this) and then using hooks... but i'm not sure where to go to learn about using window hooks, in python (or in general, actually)... is this 'downright dirty screen scraping'? --

access the text being generated in other windows

2005-07-19 Thread algebraist
being generated in other windows, by other programs/processes? ultimatehistory.exe is an example of what i'm talking about (written in C++, i think)... it takes the text output that ultimate bet's client generates, and saves it to disk... i would like to do something similar. cheers (i'm running