Geoff: StringSsegment may well do what you're looking for. The key is determining what delimits these text lines. If it is, as u suggest, a newline character, then something like the following should work: String Function RetrieveCall() var string S-caller, String S-text let S-text = GetWindowText(GetCurrentWindow(), 0) let S_caller = stringSegment(S-text, "\n", -1) ;retrieves last segment Of course the GetCurrentWindow() was just a W A G, but the StringSegment portion is accurate. On 5/18/10, Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Windows controls generally need a \r\n pair. (certainly the edit and > rich text box controls do). > > StringSegment() looks like it could do what you're after (basically > the last line of a multi-line string, right?). > > On 5/18/10, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> HI Scripters. I wish to work out, from a bunch of text in a frame, how I >> can string monipulate such that I can read only the bottom line of a >> stack, >> which in this case will be the last call put on Hold, and which the >> keyboard >> focus will thus operate on when HoldRetreave is pressed from within this >> telephony interface application I'm scripting for? I know it must probly >> have something to do with grabbing the whole MultiLine string of the text >> in the frame, and somehow getting jaws to search from the right hand end >> of >> the string, backwards along the bottom line, until it reached a >> newLine/Carriage return character, then chopping everything from their to >> the left, returning the remainder botttom line? but, I'm just a bit fogged >> as to how to exactly code this type of funcionality? Could anyone steer >> me >> on the right path here? and, is it a "\r" or "\n >> that I'd be looking for here? and is it double backslash that you have to >> enclose in quotes when looking for one of these? ive just forgotten >> somehow. >> thanks so much for any pointers/info. >> >> geoff >> >> __________� >> >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts >> >> > > > -- > Soronel Haetir > soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx > __________� > > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > > -- Change the world--1 deed at a time Jackie McBride www.abletec.serverheaven.net Please join me Saturday, 11/7, on my walk against breast cancer by making a donation at: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/larkspur> __________� View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts