Capture text from error dialogues

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Andy Mabbett

Ages ago, I used to have a utility which could capture the text (as
plain text, not screen shots) from the "pop up" error messages and
warnings produced by other programmes; but can't locate it now.

Anyone know what it was, or where I can get it?
 
Andy said:
Ages ago, I used to have a utility which could capture the text (as
plain text, not screen shots) from the "pop up" error messages and
warnings produced by other programmes; but can't locate it now.

Anyone know what it was, or where I can get it?
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PC Mag's 'scraper'?

I looked very hard for it a month or so ago without success.
 
Andy Mabbett said:
Ages ago, I used to have a utility which could capture the text (as
plain text, not screen shots) from the "pop up" error messages and
warnings produced by other programmes; but can't locate it now.

Anyone know what it was, or where I can get it?
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Have a look at Text Grabber:

TextGrabber copies the textual information out of windows that are
notoriously
difficult or impossible to copy (such as Explorer windows and tree
controls).
It will extract the text from list controls, tree controls, combo boxes,
edit
controls, listboxes, status bars, headers, and tab controls, and a few other
window types.

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000010955

(Ignore any pop-up window)

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Carpe dogma = Seize the firmly held belief
 
Ages ago, I used to have a utility which could capture the text (as
plain text, not screen shots) from the "pop up" error messages and
warnings produced by other programmes; but can't locate it now.

Anyone know what it was, or where I can get it?
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There is a windows keyboard shortcut that does this, I just can't remember
it, it was in last months PCW (UK) in tim knots article, I will try a look
it out
 
There is a windows keyboard shortcut that does this, I just can't remember
it, it was in last months PCW (UK) in tim knots article, I will try a look
it out
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with windows message boxes ctrl+c should work

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Outlook Express
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Salvare le modifiche apportate al messaggio? // save message ?
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Sì No Annulla // y n cancel
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i tried to close this post without saving, then just ^copied the msgbox, and
pasted the clipboard in the post.

hth, ciao, j.
 
jo said:
Andy Mabbett wrote:




PC Mag's 'scraper'?

I looked very hard for it a month or so ago without success.
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I just uploaded it to You Send It. I've never tried this before.
 
JoeA said:
I just uploaded it to You Send It. I've never tried this before.
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"File Transfer: Unavailable

Unfortunately, the link you have clicked is not available.
Your transfer cannot be completed. Most likely the file has exceeded its
allotted bandwidth or has been removed by the original sender or a
recipient."

:o(

Any chance you can e-mail me a copy please? (services *at* it *hyphen* mate
*dot* co *dot* uk)

--

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
Steven said:
"File Transfer: Unavailable

Unfortunately, the link you have clicked is not available.
Your transfer cannot be completed. Most likely the file has exceeded its
allotted bandwidth or has been removed by the original sender or a
recipient."
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LOL. Yep. They must be getting overwhelmed by people like us using them
for just this sort of stuff.
God knows how much mp3 traffic they must carry. :-)

I doubt they will last much longer in current form.
 
jo said:
Andy Mabbett wrote:




PC Mag's 'scraper'?

I looked very hard for it a month or so ago without success.
Click to expand...

Damn. There's another one I have to add to the list of PC Mag utils I
use. Missed it.
 
JonC said:
Text grabber, don't know if it's freeware.
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If it's this one:

http://members.aol.com/Leithauser/textgrab.html

then it's shareware:

"This program is distributed as shareware. This means that you may try
it for a 30 day trial period before you are required to pay for it.
You also have a 30 day grace period after the 30 day trial period
expires. However, if you have not paid for this program within 60 days
of when you start using it, the program will stop working until you
pay for it and input the unlock code."
 
John Corliss said:
If it's this one:

http://members.aol.com/Leithauser/textgrab.html

then it's shareware:

"This program is distributed as shareware.
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[...]

There exists a separate entity, a freeware program, named "TextGrabber."
I'm not going to spend time on a web lookup; but remember it being easy
enough to find, and think it's in the ACF list at pricelesswarehome.org.
Excerpt from its readme:

| This program is copyright 2000 by Eric VanHeest, but feel free to
| copy, modify, and distribute it as you see fit (including this readme
| file would be nice, but if you really don't want to, no worries).
| The source code for TextGrabber is included for the curious [...]

Btw, I use TextGrabber a great deal. Comes in super handy to supplement
progams that had not included an "export to file" option for their
listboxes of data (eg some of the process viewer utils), and various
similar situations.
 
omega said:
John Corliss said:
JonC wrote:



If it's this one:

http://members.aol.com/Leithauser/textgrab.html

then it's shareware:

"This program is distributed as shareware.
Click to expand...

[...]

There exists a separate entity, a freeware program, named "TextGrabber."
I'm not going to spend time on a web lookup; but remember it being easy
enough to find, and think it's in the ACF list at pricelesswarehome.org.
Excerpt from its readme:

| This program is copyright 2000 by Eric VanHeest, but feel free to
| copy, modify, and distribute it as you see fit (including this readme
| file would be nice, but if you really don't want to, no worries).
| The source code for TextGrabber is included for the curious [...]

Btw, I use TextGrabber a great deal. Comes in super handy to supplement
progams that had not included an "export to file" option for their
listboxes of data (eg some of the process viewer utils), and various
similar situations.
Click to expand...

It's here:

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000010955
 
Ages ago, I used to have a utility which could capture the text (as
plain text, not screen shots) from the "pop up" error messages and
warnings produced by other programmes; but can't locate it now.

Anyone know what it was, or where I can get it?
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if you pick up a copy of autohotkey from www.autohotkey.com then you can
compile this:

; capture text of current window and put it on the clipboard

msgbox 0, Message Text Capture, Use Windows+G to capture text of current
message


#g::
detecthiddentext off
wingettext, grabbedtext, A
msgbox 4,Copy to clipboard?, %grabbedtext%

ifmsgbox, Yes
clipboard = %grabbedtext%

return


alternatively, i can mail you a copy of the .exe: send mail to:

(e-mail address removed) (this address is good until 30 sept, then it
dies)

jack
 
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