ControlGetText, WinGetTitle sometimes reads ANSI as Wide

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Sometimes ControlGetText or WinGetTitle will return characters that display as a mess of '?'s (in Console output). This is because of an issue with SendMessage with WM_GETTEXT. Windows will sometimes return ANSI strings, and return the # of bytes rather than characters. AutoIt internally assumes this is Unicode and treats it as such - so it displays incorrectly.

To overcome this problem, zero out a buffer, fill it with WM_GETTEXT, then do a simple wcslen() on the return to compare it to the length that WM_GETTEXT returns. It should be roughly half the size if it is an ANSI string (you need to take into account odd # returns here).

I wrote script code that works around this problem, see:
www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/148411-fix-for-unreadable-text-from-wingettext-controlgettext/

[Jon]

Fixed by revision [8072] in version: 3.3.9.11