Thanks George.

By the way, I use more of your uploaded programs than any other contributor, and I want to thank you for all your years of contributions.

Very well done!

Don


>>In DOS days I could capture on-screen text by reading "video memory" locations.
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>>Does anyone know of a way to accomplish such a feat in a Windows screen? In other words, capture text from a running program (Non-VFP, Non-HTML).
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>>I know screen readers can convert windows text to speech, but I don't need the speech, just to be able to capture the text itself from a known screen layout. I will then dump it in data tables.
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>>Anyone have any leads on techniques?
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>Look at my Obj2Bmp application in the download section. It'll create a bitmap for you of the area you select or indicate programmatically. See the documentation for help on how to capture the entire screen from within a application.