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[domhnull]

I'm working with Anzio Lite. Basically I want to trigger an action based on text displayed in the terminal window (not typed or entered by the user). I've created one solution using a timer to call Anzio's Copy function which copies the screen to the clipboard. It works, but not without problems.

#1 - it dumps a bunch of stuff on the clipboard which interferes with other things we do
#2 - calling the copy function interrupts other input

I tried a hotstring but that didn't catch the text on the screen. It does catch user-typed text.

I'm probably trying to ask too much of AutoHotKey, but just in case someone had some ideas I thought I'd ask.

[Chris]

You might try ControlGet, which can retrieve and send text at the caret position. WinGetText is also a possibility. This will probably not work for some terminal emulators since these commands are only tested to work with more typical control types such as Edit.

Here is a post related to advanced functions and PuTTY specifically: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=635

And another about terminal emulators:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=267&highlight=terminal+text

[Beastmaster]

[domhnull]

Thanks Chris, I'll look at that.

I did think of capturing the text to a file and parsing it, but Anzio's performance degraded significantly while running the capture.