How to read text from annother application
lazarus / 32-Linux

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wjackson153 · 2013-12-17 11:27

For windows there was a utility that you could hover your mouse over a
3rd party application windows contents
and it would extract the text into a text control.

My question is how could this be achieved on linux,  I can not find a
3rd party  app that can perform this task
on a linux machine.  Windows apps use an api GetWindowText,   does
linux have a simular concept


This is my goal,   open for example Gcalculator   , put mouse over the
input field where I have input for example
500,  my app should extract the value from the input field.


Is this feasable?

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wjackson153 · 2013-12-18 21:27

Is anyone familar with ptrace and wine,  peek, poke etc

if so could you post a breif example how I can peek at the a input
fields contents
and relay the contents as a string that can  be imported to text file
or stdout, etc..