chinese fonts in wingettext

[Jochen]

If I am using wingettext I receive chinese fonts.

When I copy these chinese signs and fill them in here, they are correctly displayed.
Anyone got an idea?

Clipboard and language are correctly set to German,

[ahk7]

Sounds like a unicode issue, are you running the Ansi version? MsgBox % A_IsUnicode should display 0 if that is the case.
Try upgrading/switching to the Unicode version if not already. If you are running the unicode version be sure your script is save correctly as UTF-8

[Jochen]

Thanks for your answer, ahk7.
MsgBox brings "1", so it is not ANSI if I understood you right.
Save was UTF-8 with signature; I changed it to only UTF-8, but had no effect.
I am using Notepad2 for editing and running the scripts.

[just me]

Do you get the wrong results for all windows or only for some? I noticed this behaviour with some versions of PSPad.

Which AHK / OS versions do you run?

[Jochen]

hi just me,
- only for some windows (partially I already noticed a chinese font in a 16Bit Windows Program title)
- AHK 1.1.25.01 (regarding Windows - Programs and functions)
- Win7Pro 32 bit

[jeeswg]

Did you try an ANSI version of AutoHotkey?

You could try this in a Unicode version of AutoHotkey, in case it works:

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q::
WinGet, hWnd, ID, A
vChars := DllCall("GetWindowTextLength", Ptr,hWnd)+1
VarSetCapacity(vWinTitle, vChars*2, 0)
DllCall("GetWindowTextA", Ptr,hWnd, Ptr,&vWinTitle, Int,vChars)
vWinTitle := StrGet(&vWinTitle, "CP0")
MsgBox, % vWinTitle
return

[Jochen]

The script is working and I receive a MSG.
What does it mean now?....

[jeeswg]

The script attempts to get the window title, so if the MsgBox doesn't show the window title, then it suggests the script doesn't work.

You could also try AccViewer:
Acc library (MSAA) and AccViewer download links - AutoHotkey Community
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26201

[Jochen]

I guess this is a misunderstanding; I am receiving the MsgBox with the window title.
Got any idea?

[jeeswg]

GetWindowTextLength function (Windows)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... s.85).aspx

Retrieves the length, in characters, of the specified window's title bar text (if the window has a title bar). If the specified window is a control, the function retrieves the length of the text within the control. However, GetWindowTextLength cannot retrieve the length of the text of an edit control in another application.

So on that basis, it may be a technique that can retrieve text from your external window.

Btw did you have any luck with AccViewer? It's a window spy for getting information from windows/controls/GUI elements.

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q:: ;get text from Notepad's Find dialog
ControlGet, hWnd, Hwnd,, Static1, A
vChars := DllCall("GetWindowTextLength", Ptr,hWnd)+1
VarSetCapacity(vWinTitle, vChars*2, 0)
DllCall("GetWindowTextA", Ptr,hWnd, Ptr,&vWinTitle, Int,vChars)
vWinTitle := StrGet(&vWinTitle, "CP0")
MsgBox, % vWinTitle
return

[Jochen]

The subfolder C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\Lib does not exist.
Shall I create it to copy acc.ahk and anchor.ahk?

[jeeswg]

If your AutoHotkey exe is in C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey, then I suppose so.