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i want to retrieve the text that a program, say game_x shows, when something like another player talks to you, this text can be read by program_y, ive used the Sendmessage with WM_GETTEXT API function, only to pull up the caption of the window, and with winspy++ it shows that there are no child windows for the findwindowex function.
does anyone know another way?
If this mythical "game_x" doesn't display what characters say in a static or edit control, then no, it's not really possible.
There are umpteen ways a game in particular can display text and it will probably do it without the use of API functions.
Write a program that'll take a pic of the screen at the time and use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to determine the text. That'll always work. :p
optical character recognition eh? sounds fancy, do you have any resources on this?
edit: for those searching the fourms
http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/simple_ocr.asp