Of course, if you find out that you really need to scrape the data (weird storage format, concurrency issues, etc), you'll have to talk to the API. At the very minimum, you'll have to send messages to the text fields (WM_GETTEXT).

Something like this:

I have no need to do anything on Windows these days, so I've never used the win32 API with Chicken. However, since it is something that's easy to do in C, it shouldn't be that difficult to come up with a solution on both Chicken and Gambit.

-- Stephen