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


<eshedz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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


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