From kde-devel  Thu Oct 18 13:46:33 2007
From: Thomas Baumgart <thb () net-bembel ! de>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:46:33 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Retrieve String from Window
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On Tuesday 16 October 2007, none none wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction with
> regards to the following problem:
>
> Lets say I have a program running, perhaps KEdit.
> The computer user has entered text into the KEdit text window.
>
> I want to write a program that will act completely independently of
> KEdit (i.e. with no modifications to KEdit code), with the program
> being able to retrieve the string that the user wrote into the KEdit
> window.
>
> I was thinking, at a very abstract level, that the easiest way to do
> this (without logging keystrokes - I don't want to go down that road)
> would be through some function of Xorg or KDE, perhaps something along
> the lines of calling a function which would get the text in a textbox
> within a window, against a pointer which represents the KDE KEdit
> window.
>
> Does anyone know if this is possible?

Maybe, http://www.kdab.net/?page=3Dproducts&sub=3Dkdexecutor will give you =
some=20
ideas on how to solve this problem.

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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