Help reading screen contents

[lembi2001]

Is there a way that i can get the contents of the screen (in any application) and check it for keywords using the current extensions in mmf2 standard??

I'm wanting to make a program to be used as a paretnal control application. this would then need to run in background and/or minimized mode preferably from the system tray.

[Shawn]

Well, what exactly are you making it for? A web browser?

You can't really have something that is all encompassing that can read everything from emails to IM's and parse the data. A screen capture would just be an image, so you can't parse text in that.

Probably your best bet would just be to create something that can block URL's or prevent specific programs from opening that is defined by the computer admin / parent.

As for what extensions you'd have to use, someone else will have to answer that.

[lembi2001]

I work in various schools and one of the ones i work in use a piece of software called screenshield (www.guardware.com) and this software is a process on the machine which reads the contents of the screen (in any application at all) and then screenshots it to a central location and displays a warning that they have been caught.

I wanted to create a piece of software which does this. if i have to do it for just web browsing then that will do as well.

[Shawn]

I work in various schools and one of the ones i work in use a piece of software called screenshield (www.guardware.com) and this software is a process on the machine which reads the contents of the screen (in any application at all) and then screenshots it to a central location and displays a warning that they have been caught.

I wanted to create a piece of software which does this. if i have to do it for just web browsing then that will do as well.

Yeah I'm not sure you could make it all encompassing using MMF extensions. But I'm not an expert on the extensions available, hopefully someone can answer that better.

[Shawn]

For things the user is typing, you could probably make a key logger pretty easy. However, that obviously doesn't do anything about the stuff they are reading and not typing.

[Stephen]

I am currently making an app right now that lets users block specific programs from running. They have a choice when trying to open the program to receive a warning message, ask for a password, or just block it.

The reason I mention this is that I, too, tried to make an all encompassing program like you want to, without checking each individual input, website, etc. If this is possible with MMF2, I have yet to figure out how to do it.

stephen1980

[Shawn]

I am currently making an app right now that lets users block specific programs from running. They have a choice when trying to open the program to receive a warning message, ask for a password, or just block it.

The reason I mention this is that I, too, tried to make an all encompassing program like you want to, without checking each individual input, website, etc. If this is possible with MMF2, I have yet to figure out how to do it.

stephen1980

Yeah, don't think you could really do this unless you program your app in C or something. Or make a really super complex extension for this specific purpose.