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

[eshedz]

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.

 

[Oliver Wong]

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).

See java.awt.Robot

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

- Oliver

 

[eshedz]

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

 

[Roedy Green]

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