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How to copy the text of a popup?
Authored by: palahala on Jul 19, '08 12:13:41AM
As a related question: does anyone know how to copy the text from a popup dialog? Like in Windows one can simply hit Ctrl-C to copy the text from system dialogs (rather than an image) -- easy to paste into Google...

(some OCR tool like http://www.structurise.com/kleptomania/ or www.deskperience.com/ScreenOCR would sometimes be great too)

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How to copy ALL text (including title and buttons) of a popup?
Authored by: palahala on Jul 19, '08 03:35:44AM

All right, simply selecting each line of text (for example by right-clicking) followed by Cmd-C (or right-click) to copy works at least for some system dialogs. I guess I knew that once ;-)

In Windows Ctrl-C would capture all text, including the title and the captions of the buttons.



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