How to extract data from another aplication ?

Hi,

I want to give me an ideea and a starting point for the following:

I want to extract some data from an other application, exactly some numbers from edit text boxes to an gui matlab with a push button and other edit text boxes.

This is the source app:

This is the matlab gui app:

Thank you !

[Stephen23]

What interfaces does the "other application" provide?

[Cristian Martin]

I really don't know, it's an executable file downloaded from the internet.

There's a way to acces a temp file of the app and to ectract data from there?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Unless the app provides a better solution, you will need to ask to capture the screen in that area, and then do Optical Character Recognition.

Apps like you show seldom create temporary files.

It might happen to be the case that you can use Java Robot to activate the File menu and maybe there is a "save" item there.