WindowSpy and WinGetText reporting incorrect text

[TheoG]

Hi,

As you can see below, both windowspy and wingettext are reporting incorrect text.

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How should I proceed ?

[mikeyww]

It works with the control under the mouse. You might need to activate the target window first.

How you should proceed depends on your goal, whatever that is.

[TheoG]

The control was under the mouse, WinGetTitle() returns « help »

I need WinGetText to return « test »

[boiler]

Try using ControlGetText.

[TheoG]

ControlGetText() returns an empty string, as shown below.
The image, text and button have distinct ClassNN : Button2, Static1 and Button8

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[boiler]

Please show the code you used.

[TheoG]

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#y::
{
	MouseGetPos &aX, &aY, &Win, &CNNX
	Tooltip(ControlGetText(CNNX, "A"))
}

#x::
{
	Tooltip(WinGetText("A"))
}

[boiler]

I would have done the following, but it sounds like that’s going to come up empty.

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MsgBox ControlGetText('Static1', 'help ahk_class WinDevObject ahk_exe wdtst.exe')

It seems odd that this window has these simple, distinct controls that don’t reveal their text, but that is apparently the case. The only other thing I can think to try is running the script as administrator.

[TheoG]

I get the same result with your code and running as admin.
Should this be moved to bug reports ?

The code to reproduce is :
NextTitle("help")
Error("test")

With Windev :
https://windev.com/windev/WD-Express.htm

[boiler]

Should this be moved to bug reports ?

No, it’s not an AHK bug that not all windows have their text available via standard Windows control interfaces.

[TheoG]

Could you move it to the wish list ?

[boiler]

You’re not understanding. It’s not an AHK issue. What would the wish list say? For windows where the text isn’t available in the controls, get the text anyway?

You can try other approaches like using the Acc library or OCR.

[TheoG]

The text has to be in there somewhere, how else would it be displayed ? And why does AHK report text that is not displayed on screen ?

Acc does not report the correct text either :

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I would appreciate if a developper could take a look at this.
If not, any pointers to help me debug ahk myself ?

[boiler]

The text has to be in there somewhere, how else would it be displayed ?

Lots of ways. Take a look at an Excel or Chrome window and try grabbing the text from controls. Not sure why you’re insisting it has to be available by that method. There are probably more applications where the text isn’t available via that method than those that are.

If not, any pointers to help me debug ahk myself ?

Again, it’s not an AHK bug, but feel free to create a fork of AHK from the C++ source code that finds all text in all windows. Please share it when you have it solved.