Feature request: is it possible to capture all siblings' text?

[popyoung]

Imagine I want to search for a word from Windows services. After opening a service dialog, I could capture the text of the item I clicked. However, I need to find a specific word from all the names of services. So technically speaking, is it possible to capture all the text of which are siblings of the item I clicked?

[m417z]

It is possible to implement code that iterates over all accessibility controls and grabs the text. It can be a nice feature, but that's not something that Textify can do at this point. I'll consider implementing it in one of the future versions, but it's not a priority.

There's also the SysExporter tool which you might find useful. It's also designed to grab text from Windows controls, but it doesn't use accessibility, so the result can be slightly different.

[popyoung]

I have tried SysExporter as you mentioned. Like other tools of Nirsoft, SysExporter works but is not friendly to users. Looking forward to your work. I will use SysExporter as a substitution until that.

[GH01]

+1

In SysExporter it's easy to get the text from a single column (or selected columns). Yet I also expect there's a tool that can grab selected column(s) with one blow.

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By the way, other tools I know:

HyperSnap: Can capture visible text from a screen area with its TextSnap feature. So one can capture wanted column(s) by hiding other columns first. However, it needs time to auto-scroll if the list is very long. Sometimes the capture could fail midway.

GetWindowText: Grabs the whole list at just one blow. The result is in TSV format. However, it just grabs the whole list, no column can be hidden away.