>>You programatically move the mose over the icon, wait until the tool tip displays, use a screen capture program to grab the screen shot and then send the jpg through an ocr package to read the strength. *g*
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>Your solution gets rid of the old bulky way of controlling an attached digital camera to catch the tooltip, download the image then ocr... cool. And even better than the first improvement (getting rid of the little robot who had to press the button on the camera). Making progress every day :).

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update: I have no idea how this blank message came into being. Must have been some mental glitch in my head.