redirecting text to standard out

[Raphael Clifford]

Hi,

I am running a windows app under wine that prints text to the screen. 
This can be copied and pasted into wine's notepad.  Is there any way to 
get wine to simply output all text written by the app to standard out? 
This would save me a lot of hassle :) I don't mind if it outputs far too 
much (text from buttons etc) as I am planning on filtering the 
information in any case.

It has been suggested to me to edit TextOut (or ExtTextOut) in dlls/gdi 
somewhere and simply add a printf.  I had a look but this is the first 
time I have ever looked at wine source and I am completely baffled.  Any 
help is very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Raphael

[Hans Leidekker]

On Friday 25 March 2005 16:14, Raphael Clifford wrote:
> I am running a windows app under wine that prints text to the screen. 
> This can be copied and pasted into wine's notepad.  Is there any way to 
> get wine to simply output all text written by the app to standard out?

I remember I did something like this to extract the word list
from a Dutch dictionary program:

 WINEDEBUG="trace+text" wine <app.exe> 2>&1

Because my program can't display all words at once and
because I didn't want to click the mouse button a hundred
thousand times I wrote a little program to do it.

I used xwininfo and xev to find the window id and 
coordinates of the down arrow on the scroll bar for the
word list. The program would then send X button press 
and release events to this window in a loop.

 -Hans

Thanks for that idea,

I was able to capture some output from Dragon Nat. Speaking using that  
idea.


trace:text:DrawTextExW L"New-Paragraph ", -1, [(17,2)-(729,18)] 00000824
trace:text:DrawTextExW Params: iTabLength=0, iLeftMargin=0, iRightMargin=0
trace:text:DrawTextExW L"this text was dictated into NaturallySpeaking for  
", -1, [(17,2)-(729,18)] 00000824

there's almost certainly a better way to do this but at least that gives  
me a rudementary way of grabbing dictated text in a Linux process.

I could probably pipe it through grep to filter out the actual text from  
the rest.

Unless anyone has a better idea ....

Peter




On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:01:07 +0100, Hans Leidekker <hans(a)it.vu.nl> wrote:
> On Friday 25 March 2005 16:14, Raphael Clifford wrote:
> > I am running a windows app under wine that prints text to the screen.
> > This can be copied and pasted into wine's notepad.  Is there any way to
> > get wine to simply output all text written by the app to standard out?
>
> I remember I did something like this to extract the word list
> from a Dutch dictionary program:
>
> WINEDEBUG="trace+text" wine <app.exe> 2>&1
>
> Because my program can't display all words at once and
> because I didn't want to click the mouse button a hundred
> thousand times I wrote a little program to do it.
>
> I used xwininfo and xev to find the window id and
> coordinates of the down arrow on the scroll bar for the
> word list. The program would then send X button press
> and release events to this window in a loop.
>
> -Hans

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[Raphael Clifford]

Hans Leidekker wrote:
> On Friday 25 March 2005 16:14, Raphael Clifford wrote:
> > I am running a windows app under wine that prints text to the screen. 
> > This can be copied and pasted into wine's notepad.  Is there any way to 
> > get wine to simply output all text written by the app to standard out?
>
> I remember I did something like this to extract the word list
> from a Dutch dictionary program:
>
> WINEDEBUG="trace+text" wine <app.exe> 2>&1
>
> Because my program can't display all words at once and
> because I didn't want to click the mouse button a hundred
> thousand times I wrote a little program to do it.
>
> I used xwininfo and xev to find the window id and 
> coordinates of the down arrow on the scroll bar for the
> word list. The program would then send X button press 
> and release events to this window in a loop.
>
> -Hans

Thanks very much that is fantastic. Also avoids my having to edit the 
source code :)

There is something very simple I don't understand though.  Using those 
options on pokerstars.exe (from www.pokerstars.com), for example, you 
constantly get text that is not being output to the pokerstars screen on 
top of the stuff that is. To give a concrete example, try joining a 
table and look at the output of wine using WINEDEBUG="text".  It is 
constantly printing out messages that seem to relate to the previous 
login screen!  It seems I don't really understand what is going on. Any 
ideas?  Is the login screen secretly hanging around somewhere but just 
not visible in wine?

Cheers,
Raphael

redirecting text to standard INPUT

[Brouard Nicolas]

Le vendredi 25 mars 2005 à 22:01 +0100, Hans Leidekker a écrit :
> On Friday 25 March 2005 16:14, Raphael Clifford wrote:
> > I am running a windows app under wine that prints text to the screen. 
> > This can be copied and pasted into wine's notepad.  Is there any way to 
> > get wine to simply output all text written by the app to standard out?
>
> I remember I did something like this to extract the word list
> from a Dutch dictionary program:
>
> WINEDEBUG="trace+text" wine <app.exe> 2>&1
>
> Because my program can't display all words at once and
> because I didn't want to click the mouse button a hundred
> thousand times I wrote a little program to do it.
>
> I used xwininfo and xev to find the window id and 
> coordinates of the down arrow on the scroll bar for the
> word list. The program would then send X button press 
> and release events to this window in a loop.
>
> -Hans

With the same kind of idea, I would like to run Stata, a nice
statistical package, in batch mode (it was running in batch mode on
AIX).
On Windows (and Wine), stata pops up in interactive mode and you have an
internal windows window named "Stata command" where you have to enter
"manually" a command like "do foo.do" . And I would like to do "wine
stata foo.do" or something similar.

Unfortunately, using stata 7, all windows (Review, Variables, Stata
results etc. are imbedded in a huge "Intercooled stata 7.0" window and I
can't access to them individually. xwinfo displays the same Windows Id
for all the imbedded windows.

Any hint?

Nicolas
-- 
Brouard Nicolas <nicolas.brouard(a)libertysurf.fr>

redirecting text to standard INPUT

[Hans Leidekker]

On Tuesday 5 April 2005 12:39, Brouard Nicolas wrote:
> With the same kind of idea, I would like to run Stata, a nice
> statistical package, in batch mode (it was running in batch mode on
> AIX).

Maybe CXtest fits your needs?

  http://cxtest.org/

 -Hans