Method ControlGetText

AutoIt X

Method Reference


ControlGetText

Retrieves text from a control

ControlGetText "title", "text", "controlID"

Parameters

title The title of the window to access.
text The text of the window to access.
controlID The control to interact with. See Controls.

Return Value

Success: Returns text from a control.
Failure: Sets oAutoIt.error to 1 and returns a blank string of "".

Remarks

When using a control name in the Control functions, you need to add a number to the end of the name to indicate which control. For example, if there two controls listed called "MDIClient", you would refer to these as "MDIClient1" and "MDIClient2".

Related

ControlCommand, ControlSetText, StatusbarGetText, WinGetText

Example


Set oAutoIt = WScript.CreateObject("AutoItX3.Control")
var = oAutoIt.ControlGetText("Untitled - Notepad", "", "Edit1")