Winscraper by Peter Boulton

de John Corliss 01/11/2007 11:40

After all the unwarranted confusion and concern about this program which
I caused in another thread, I feel it only fair to post this
recommendation for Winscraper. It's great little program described at
this site:

http://www.codeproject.com/tools/WindowScraper_Utility.asp

Here's a quote from that page:

"As a developer, I wanted a simple, free tool that would do all of the
following:

* 'Scrape' the text off a dialog box control or message box, so that it
can be pasted as text into an email or whatever. (How often have I
dismissed the error box without accurately noting down its contents?)

* Capture images of controls or windows from my application for
documentation purposes etc..

* Resize my application or web browser windows to a specific size for
testing alternate screen resolutions or consistent documentation of my
application.

That's what the tool presented in this article sets out to do. As a full
time developer I expect to make a lot of use of it from now on!"

Since downloading from that site requires setting up an account, Peter
has made an installation package available at:

http://www.dataper.demon.co.uk/winscraper/

This download contains the two .dll files needed by the program (they
are already present on my machine) as well as an uninstaller.

I have used this program and it's far superior to the (no longer
freeware) PC Magazine "Scraper" utility. The interface is very simple to
understand and use. Only caution is that it works great in XP, but FWIU,
may have some problems working in W98SE.

In my book, it's a keeper and again, my apologies to Peter as well as
Lim Bio Liong for not trying out the program first before voicing my
(unwarranted) concerns which were unfairly based on a post by another
person.

--
Regards from John "eating crow" Corliss. I don't reply to trolls like
Andy Mabbett. I'm filtering out all Google Groups posts. No ad, cd,
commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited or trial wares
or warez for me, please.