From:

 Tom Kingston <tom.kingston@charter.net>

Subject:

 Re: Beginner question on Immediate Mode

Date:

 Fri, Jan 4, 2013 8:48:42 am

Very true, Mike. And it was probably just your answer that reminded me
of doing things like this and getting a huge pile of information back,
which, sometimes was what I wanted and sometimes not.

Regards,
Tom


On 1/4/2013 1:16 AM, M F Mason wrote:
> Hello Tom,
>
> I think that sometimes it is difficult to know how comprehensive to make
> a single answer .
> The nice thing about a forum like this is that it enables multiple
> answers from different people and allows the person raising the original
> question to ask supplementary questions and add to their knowledge at
> their own pace.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Mike.
>
> At 19:44 03/01/2013, you wrote:
>> That will indeed work. But sometimes it's wise to first see how much
>> information you're dealing with, because it may be a lot. The
>> FilterByType method will do just that and the Count property, well, I
>> think that's probably pretty self-explanatory as well. But regardless,
>> here's a peek at my Thunderbird window.
>>
>> print Mouse.Window.Clips.FilterByType(ctText).Count
>> 217
>>
>> Wow. That's a lot of clips.
>>
>> Hth,
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On 1/3/2013 1:14 PM, M F Mason wrote:
>>> Hello Steve,
>>>
>>> I think that the following will achieve this:
>>>
>>> print Mouse.Window.Clips.ClipsText
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Mike.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At 14:35 03/01/2013, you wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Yep, it was.
>>>>
>>>> All the best
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
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>>>> *From:* M F Mason [mailto:mfmason@blinding-flash.net]
>>>> *Sent:* 29 December 2012 10:53
>>>> *To:* gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
>>>> *Subject:* RE: Beginner question on Immediate Mode
>>>>
>>>> Hello Steve,
>>>>
>>>> I thought that in your experiment you were wanting to use the Immed app
>>>> to obtain the text in the mouse window.
>>>> Was this in fact the case?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Mike.
>>>>
>>>> At 13:33 28/12/2012, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Mike,
>>>>
>>>> I think Tomââ