GetTextInRect Inconsistencies

seott · Post by **seott** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:41 pm

Anyone else having inconsistent results with GetTextInRect? I've ran the function a few times on the exact same block of text and sometimes get a blank and sometimes get the text. Messing with the coordinates a bit makes the results -more- consistent but not totally consistent. If I run it 10 times it'll probably work 8 or 9. Is there something I could be doing wrong?

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:44 pm

Which version of Macro Scheduler are you using? The text capture functions are more reliable in v11 which uses a later version of the text capture libraries.

seott · Post by **seott** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:40 pm

Using version 11 as of this morning and I'm getting these results.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:43 pm

There are some valid reasons why it will sometimes come back blank. The app may be busy/unresponsive when the function is called. I always recommend calling GetTextInRect in a loop. Loop until text returned. You'll notice that the text capture sample uses a loop.

seott · Post by **seott** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:08 pm

Brilliant. Will do. Thanks!

GetTextInRect Inconsistencies

GetTextInRect Inconsistencies

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