Getting information of another window in java...

[Psytherium]

I was wondering if Java has the ability to get information from another window. I was using a program called AutoIt v3 Active Window Info, and it gets different information from a window such as the buttons and text fields in the window. I've included a couple of pictures to demonstrate it doing this.




Anyone have any ideas on how to do this in Java? Thanks

[Davey]

I don't believe its possible to do this unless you use JNI.

[Psytherium]

So I would have to use JNI and c++ or something?

[Davey]

You could certainly do it using JNI and C++ to the Windows SDK.

[Joe Nellis]

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[Psytherium]

This is the first time I've tried messing with JNI, so from what I read I tried through together some code. I first tested out the Hello world idea and that worked fine for me. Then II took my code that worked in C++ and tried to use it with JNI, and got some errors. Here's my code, followed by the errors...

POINT pt;
pt.x=200;
pt.y=570;
int nMaxCount = 10;
char buff[20];

HWND hWndParent;
hWndParent = WindowFromPoint(pt);

if(GetWindowText(hWndParent, buff, nMaxCount))
	printf("%s",buff);
else
	printf("null");

HelloWorld.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__GetWindowTextA
@12
HelloWorld.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__WindowFromPoin
t@8
HelloWorldImp.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals

Is this just not supported in JNI or what? I'm totally lost here, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Psytherium]

Does anyone have any experience with GetWindowText() and other functions of that sort with JNI?

[dlorde]

Have you built a JNI DLL exporting the API functions you want to use?

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[Psytherium]

That's when the compiler starts to whine at me...What's weird is when I try to compile the .cpp in Visual C++ it compiles fine, but when I try to compile in the command prompt using cl, it gives me those link errors