Is it possible to code something that reads stuff OUTSIDE the GUI?

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eshedz@gmail.com - 18 Nov 2005 18:21 GMT

Uptil now all I did was coding stuff and make stuff react to mouse
actions within a window (jframe for example)..

Is it possible to code an app that, let's say, get a word that is under
the mouse pointer but outside the window -- for example Notepad? (e.g.
you hover with your mouse a word inside notepad and the system gets
that word).

Thanks.

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Oliver Wong - 18 Nov 2005 18:37 GMT

> Uptil now all I did was coding stuff and make stuff react to mouse
> actions within a window (jframe for example)..
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> you hover with your mouse a word inside notepad and the system gets
> that word).

See java.awt.Robot

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Robot.html

- Oliver

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eshedz@gmail.com - 18 Nov 2005 19:13 GMT

wow

finally someone answered me -- I put this also in the official java
forum and nobody replied :)

Thanks, oliver.. i'll check it out later, got things to do :)

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Roedy Green - 19 Nov 2005 13:00 GMT

>Is it possible to code an app that, let's say, get a word that is under
>the mouse pointer but outside the window -- for example Notepad? (e.g.
>you hover with your mouse a word inside notepad and the system gets
>that word).

The only tool close to that is the Robot class. It will get you
pixels of the text rendering, not text

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/robot.html

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