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Asked: 2026-05-24T13:12:19+00:00

There is an application which is built in the SunAWTFrame class and, as you

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There is an application which is built in the SunAWTFrame class and, as you can guess, this is a strange world for the Windows API.

So I wonder, what should I do/use to get text from controls in a GUI built with this or automate them?

Is there some sort of API or library that can accomplish this and is suitable for work inside pure C++ or similiar language (not only Java)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your problem is likely due to the Java GUI being a Swing GUI program (note that the MS Windows class for these GUI’s — at least I know for JFrames — is “SunAWTFrame”), and since Swing uses light-weight components, not MS Windows native components, you won’t easily be able to extract window information from them. I don’t know of any easy way around this without the Java source code.

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    After a little Googling some I have found new information:

    • Have you looked into using perhaps Java Monkey or Java Ferret?
    • Or perhaps best of all, Java Access Bridge which “is a technology that exposes the Java Accessibility API in a Microsoft Windows DLL, enabling Java applications and applets that implement the Java Accessibility API to be visible to assistive technologies on Microsoft Windows systems”
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