We have a legacy system that is essentially a glorified telnet interface.
We cannot use an alternative telnet client program to connect to the system since there are special features built into the client software they have provided us.
I want to be able to screen scrape from this program, however that’s proving very difficult.
I have tried using WindowSpy and Spy++ to check the window text and it comes up blank.
It’s a custom C program written by the vendor (they have even disabled selecting text).
I’m really looking for a free option and something I may perhaps be able to use in conjuction with a scripting language.
It seems the only ways to grab text is directly from the Windows GDI or from memory, but that seems a little extreme.
Can anyone recommend any software/DLLs that might be able to accomplish this? I’d be extremely appreciative.
I ended up simply opening the software running in memory in a hex editor (I used WinHex) and then found where the text resides in memory.
I then got memory scraping code for AutoHotKey and AutoIt which will read text of however many characters from a particular memory address.