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GetWindowText for Windows

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GetWindowText is a highly portable utility designed to extract text from diverse window controls, including Edit, Static, Groupbox. It also supports reading content from directory trees and list views, offering comprehensive text retrieval.
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  • Pros

    • Extremely small and portable application.
    • Reads text from various standard window controls.
    • Extracts full content from directory trees (SysTreeView32).
    • Extracts full content from list views (SysListView32).
    • Simple drag-and-hover mechanism for text capture.
    • Supports nearly all text types within controls.

  • Cons

    • No direct mention of saving or exporting extracted text.
    • Lacks specific functionality for copying text to clipboard.
    • Does not provide advanced text processing capabilities.
    • Limited to on-demand capture, no batch processing.
    • No indication of customization options for text retrieval.
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GetWindowText for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
2.32
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 8
  • Windows ME
  • Windows Server
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP
Additional Requirements
None
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
1,844
Downloads Last Week
0
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Developer’s Description

By Nenad Hrg
Read the window text, view directory tree, and list.

GetWindowText is a very small and portable program with which you can read the window text. By clicking the left mouse button on the button with GetWindowText icon and by holding down the left mouse button (drag), the read can be started.

Then simply hold your mouse over the window from which the text should be read. It can be read almost all the texts, e.g. from Edit, Static, Groupbox Controls. This program supports also directory trees (SysTreeView32) and list views (SysListView32) to read the entire contents. When you release the mouse button, the reading will be finished.

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