Textify - copy system dialog, message box text

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Textify - copy system dialog, message box text

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Copy text from such dialog boxes, message boxes and more.

https://rammichael.com/textify

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Demo at https://i.imgur.com/emXShuc.gifv

Download at http://rammichael.com/downloads/textify.zip

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I am Baas wrote:Copy text from such dialog boxes, message boxes and more.
Nice. Certainly an improvement on tools like SysExporter and GetWindowText that just grab dialog boxes. I will definitely be using this to rip out text from static system tools. I do a fair amount of that for HOWTOs and bug reports.

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Here it is being used on the site to help grab areas of text without doing an "edit" function. Yeah this is a keeper.

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It doesn’t work on everything, but I’ve had luck with several programs that had some kind of copy restriction. As a result, it’s an unreliable but necessary tool for software testing and documentation.

It's at the top of my programs to add to the database.

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Since the program pays attention to segments and separations, the program will occasionally only grab one or two words. I hope future versions work in a way that will grab multiple sections’ text at one time.

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After getting saved by his program REPEATEDLY this week, I had to add it to the database. It's only fair.

Textify
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2785

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@webfork
Thanks for submitting Textify to the database, I voted. ;)

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@webfork

Thank you :D

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#7 Post by __philippe »

Textify: Good stuff indeed, thanks Baas and Webfork ! :)

RaMMichael's Blog has a lively and helpful chronicle about Testify 's ongoing development.

See a few snippets here:
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and here:
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Textify 1.7 released
- web site: https://rammichael.com/textify
- demonstration: https://rammichael.com/wp-content/uploa ... e-demo.gif
- download setup: https://rammichael.com/downloads/textify_setup.exe
- download portable from GitHub: https://github.com/m417z/Textify/archive/v1.7.zip
- changelog:

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v1.7 (October 26, 2019)
. In-app configuration file editor.
. Improved per-monitor DPI handling.
. If no text was found, Textify now tries the parent element until something is found. This fixes querying Chrome tab titles.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Rick Cook.

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