Getting the text of a visible tooltip

DirtyDevo · Post by **DirtyDevo** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:36 pm

Does anyone know of a way (VBScript or otherwise) to get the text of the currently visible tooltip?

I found a bit of VBScript code to copy text from a text area to the clipboard:

strCopy=BasicTextArea.Value
document.parentWindow.clipboardData.SetData "text", strCopy

The problem is I don't know how to access a visible tooltip rather than a text area. Because of the nature of the program I'm scripting, in this particular instance I don't think I can access the control that is generating the tooltip. I need to directly access the currently visible text.

Thanks!!!!!

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:19 pm

Just a thought, have not tried this.

Could you grab a screen shot of the tool tip using ScreenCapture> then OCR the resulting bitmap using the gpulawski method outlined here?

DirtyDevo · Post by **DirtyDevo** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:29 pm

Well, I thought about that, but I think it would be too slow. I'd actually be moving the mouse along a series of objects and grabbing the text from each one and I'd need it to be pretty fast.

Thanks for the idea though!!!!