Re: Capturing Other Application Data

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From: danzer
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:46

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Dan Mayo wrote:
> I want to write an application that records data from another program.
> For example, the other program has visible captions containing numbers 
> that are visible.  I would like my program to be able to read those 
> numbers and store them in a file periodically.
> 
> What is the best thing to start to look at to be able to do this?

Google the phrase "screen scraper".  That should get you started.

Danzer

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