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[HelpMe2]

I have a program which outputs text in HTML format. Therefore, i cant use the WinGetText command - it doesnt find anything.

is there anyway i can read the text from the actual program or from the HTML file it saves in real time?

thanks

[Guest]

use RegExMatch

[HelpMe2]

Can you be more specific please? The help file on regexmatch is very confusing.
How do i call on the html file to check whether a change has happened to it and read that change?

[n-l-i-d]

Is this program a browser? If so, you might be able to grab the text with a JavaScript Bookmarklet. If you know the address/url of the file, you could use the AutoHotkey command URLDownloadToFile, or the URLDownloadToVar function in the Forum. If that fails, try curl.exe.

HTH

[HelpMe2]

yea i know where it saves the file temporarily on the computer so i want to constantly look for if it changed. More specifically, i want to be able to tell if it changed to a number in the range of 1-15 - if yes, then a mouse click will be performed.
Im just having problem with figuring out how to detect that change as soon as possible from the html.

[n-l-i-d]

If the file is locally stored, create a timer with SetTimer, and on the timed check, look at the modification date of the file with FileGetTime, compare it with the previous modification date of the file, if changed, use Loop, Read or FileReadLine with InStr() (or FileRead with RegExMatch) to get your specific text inside the file, which you then again can compare with the previous text you got from the file to see if it changed.

HTH

[HelpMe2]

Thanks for the advice.
i think in my case it would be better to just constantly track a change by using a loop and sleep.

Lets say this is the code that i know will change and only this, how do i make it scan only this part of the htm file and if the number changes:

[Ian]

xpath v3 - read and write XML documents with XPath syntax [Titan]
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[HelpMe2]

Worked great!! Thank you so much

I just needed to add #Persistent to the top so that it constantly runs

[tank]

while xpat will work on well formed html it breaks when you get imporperly formated html
you may also use javascript dom model with this
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30599&highlight=
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