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Jaysee:
The one program i know of which is really good at capturing text in such complicated cases is a shareware program called Kleptomania: http://www.structurise.com/kleptomania/
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Thanks for the suggestion.  Looking at their offering gave me an idea for solving my immediate need:  I took the Explorer image file from SC and fed it to my OmniPage OCR app, which gave me back an editable text file (sans some formatting).  Crude, but it did the job...

RE SnagIt:  Looks like a great app, but perhaps a bit of overkill for most of what I need from a capture program.  If complex text scraping was only a little easier in SC... (but you've heard this already!)

tomos:
grab windows object hotkey in SC is Ctrl+Shift+PrtScr i think.
Bring that up and then select the object and hit Ctrl+T.
-mouser (April 16, 2007, 01:53 PM)
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dunno ..

maybe I'm still misunderstanding?

"grab windows object",
then in main window I click & drag to select text,
then Ctrl+T
then paste in Notepad - well whatever

I just get the date & time of capture.


When I select then go Edit/Copy text to clipboard
as said above, I get the Title of the window & the name of the originating programme & date
as opposed to the text in the actual window/selected area

I notice I'm still using Version 2.25.03
Will bring up to date & see any diff.

rjbull:
A few alternatives:

If using Win2K, with the focus on an error box, you can just press Control-C to have Windows send the text to the clipboard.

Or try CopyMessageBox by Thyante Software.  The older, smaller version just keeps text, the newer one keeps images as well.

Lastly, Nir Sofer's SystemExporter:


SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard
list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and
WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your
system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file.
Here's some examples for data that you can export with SysExporter:
* The files list inside archive file (.zip, .rar, and so on) as
  displayed by WinZip or 7-Zip File Manager.
* The files list inside a folder.
* The event log of Windows.
* The list of emails and contacts in Outlook Express.
* The Registry values displayed in the right pane of the Registry
  Editor.
* The data displayed by SysInternals utilities (Registry Monitor, File
  Monitor, Process Explorer, and others.)


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tomos:
A few alternatives:

If using Win2K, with the focus on an error box, you can just press Control-C to have Windows send the text to the clipboard.-rjbull (April 17, 2007, 04:35 AM)
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that sounds like the way to go!

Lastly, Nir Sofer's SystemExporter:

SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard
list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and
WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your
system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file.
Here's some examples for data that you can export with SysExporter:
* The files list inside archive file (.zip, .rar, and so on) as
  displayed by WinZip or 7-Zip File Manager.
* The files list inside a folder.
* The event log of Windows.
* The list of emails and contacts in Outlook Express.
* The Registry values displayed in the right pane of the Registry
  Editor.
* The data displayed by SysInternals utilities (Registry Monitor, File
  Monitor, Process Explorer, and others.)
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-rjbull (April 17, 2007, 04:35 AM)
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& that sounds very good

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