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How to read or get a string from text box or text area?

Asked by nate

Hi,

I am using Sikuli IDE 1.01 to automate testing for a Windows 7 desktop application. The program does not use the standard windows form control objects so Sikuli is proving to be a great tool to test this application.

Right now, I need to be able to verify if the text contained in a text field is of a certain value or not.

Is there a way I can read text values from a text box or a text field?

thanks

Nate

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Eugene S (shragovich) said : 		#1

Hi,

Sikuli does not use element handlers so you can't just read values from a text box. You can follow one of the below approaches:

1. Use OCR to read the text in a predefined area (be aware of OCR limitations)
2. If the text is clickable and "selectable", you can just select it and copy it directly to your buffer.

Eugene

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Nurbergen (87073525266-w) said : 		#2

did you find answer of it?

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IgorG (qa-ukraine) said : 		#3

A possible solution may looks like:
    matches = r.listText() # get the match regions occupied by the pixels of a word
    for m in matches:
        #m.highlight(1)
        word = m.getText()
        labelX = m.getX()
        labelY = m.getY()
        labelH = m.getH()
        labelW = m.getW()

To compare the strings Python has a handy function SequenceMatcher in the library called difflib :
import difflib
def howSimilar(str1, str2):
    return difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, str1, str2).ratio()

It suppose to return a number from 0 to 1.

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