Getting information from a text box - Full Tilt Poker

Question

Full Tilt Poker's GUI has a box of text that keeps reporting on the state the current hand. I wanted to be able to parse that text but do not know how to gain access to it, so if anyone could point me in the proper direction, I would appreciate it greatly.

Image with the GUI and text box: http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6660/ftpbox.jpg .

Answer 1

This neat analysis of harvesting data from an online Poker GUI interface is a pretty nice read; they suggest, for accessing the text, API Hooking with something like detour.

They also suggest the much-more-painless method of reading the actual log/hand history output that most poker clients write to the disk in real-time.