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How to get text from a control ?

The window has edit control: ClassNN=Edit3, Text="File.txt"

For this edit control I get text with:



This works OK (displays: "OutputVar = File.txt").


The window also has static/text control: ClassNN=Static10, Text="File size: 10 KB"

For this control I tried to get text with:



But this doesn't work OK (displays: "OutputVar = Static").


The window also has static/text control: ClassNN=Static12, Text="File ext: txt"

For this control I tried to get text with:



But this doesn't work OK (displays: "OutputVar = ").


How to get text from a static/text control ?

really strange

did you tried with DetectHiddenText, On ?

DJAnonimo wrote:



Yes, I tried that.

It didn't help.

Can Window Spy see the text you're trying to retrieve?