Re: Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

2007-01-25 Thread Boris Borcic
Chris Mellon wrote: >> Maybe. In any case, color separation solves my (sub)problem : the blue layer >> from the wx generated model matches the green layer from the app's window, >> pixel >> for pixel (at least with antialiasing and cleartype on, while writing black >> on >> white). >> > > That's

Re: Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

2007-01-25 Thread Chris Mellon
On 1/25/07, Boris Borcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Mellon wrote: > > On 1/25/07, Boris Borcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Chris Mellon wrote: > > > > > Some quick & dirty wxPython code > > > > def getTextBitmap(text, font, fgcolor, bgcolor): > > dc = wx.MemoryDC

Re: Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

2007-01-25 Thread Boris Borcic
Chris Mellon wrote: > On 1/25/07, Boris Borcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Chris Mellon wrote: > > Some quick & dirty wxPython code > > def getTextBitmap(text, font, fgcolor, bgcolor): > dc = wx.MemoryDC() > dc.SetFont(font) > width, height= dc.GetTextExte

Re: Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

2007-01-25 Thread Chris Mellon
On 1/25/07, Boris Borcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Mellon wrote: > > On 1/24/07, Boris Borcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Chris Mellon wrote: > >>> Using either win32 or wxPython you will be able to produce bitmaps > >>> directly, without needing to create a visible window. > >>> > >>>

Re: Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

2007-01-25 Thread Boris Borcic
Chris Mellon wrote: > On 1/24/07, Boris Borcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Chris Mellon wrote: >>> Using either win32 or wxPython you will be able to produce bitmaps >>> directly, without needing to create a visible window. >>> >>> >>> Some quick & dirty wxPython code >>> >>> def getTextBitmap(te

Re: Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Mellon
On 1/24/07, Boris Borcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Mellon wrote: > > > > Using either win32 or wxPython you will be able to produce bitmaps > > directly, without needing to create a visible window. > > > > > > Some quick & dirty wxPython code > > > > def getTextBitmap(text, font, fgcolor,

Re: Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

2007-01-24 Thread Boris Borcic
Chris Mellon wrote: > > Using either win32 or wxPython you will be able to produce bitmaps > directly, without needing to create a visible window. > > > Some quick & dirty wxPython code > > def getTextBitmap(text, font, fgcolor, bgcolor): > dc = wx.MemoryDC() > dc.SetFont(font) > wi

Re: Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

2007-01-24 Thread Boris Borcic
Chris Mellon wrote: > On 1/23/07, Boris Borcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ...A simple - >> with Tkinter or otherwise - way to wrap access to the MS Windows UI text >> rendering engine, as a function that would return a picture of rendered >> text, >> given a string, a font, a size and col

Re: Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

2007-01-24 Thread Boris Borcic
imageguy wrote: > > I was looking for ( and still am searching for) similiar functionality. > Specifically I would like to be able to capture a small area of the > screen (a number or a code) and convert this to text that can be used > in my application. There is a windows executable version of

Re: Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

2007-01-23 Thread Chris Mellon
On 23 Jan 2007 12:06:35 -0800, imageguy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to use UI Automation to drive an MS Windows app (with > > pywinauto). > > > > I need to scrape the app's window contents and use some form of OCR to get > > at > > the texts (pywinauto can't get at them). > > > > A

Re: Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

2007-01-23 Thread imageguy
> I am trying to use UI Automation to drive an MS Windows app (with pywinauto). > > I need to scrape the app's window contents and use some form of OCR to get at > the texts (pywinauto can't get at them). > > As an alternative to integrating an OCR engine, and since I know the fonts and > sizes use

Re: Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

2007-01-23 Thread Chris Mellon
On 1/23/07, Boris Borcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to use UI Automation to drive an MS Windows app (with pywinauto). > > I need to scrape the app's window contents and use some form of OCR to get at > the texts (pywinauto can't get at them). > > As an alternative to integr