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Dr. Dread

Does anyone know of a way to obtain selected text from a window other
than using @CTRL(C). Sending Ctrl+C to windows has proven to be a bit
wacky because some programs have disabled this shortcut and various
clipboard managers may interfere with it.

Dread

LiquidCode · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 1:03 pm Post subject:

Sure, You will need to find the ID or CLASS number of the edit
box you want to copy from then you can use the following API call.

%q = #Window_Class_Or_Id_Number
%z = @sendmsg(%q,$0301,0,0)

This will copy the text to the clipboard.

You can use the various VDS window functions to find the ID number.

Hope that helped.

Dr. Dread · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 4:20 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Chris! I was looking for something like that. However, I am not
retrieving text from edit boxes or GUI controls but rather from text
sections with some text strings high-lighted. I find these a bit hard to
identify, though.

I can make it work fairly good by using @mousepos() + @winatpoint(), like this:

LiquidCode · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 8:38 pm Post subject:

I don't have time to try this but you can try to use the following
API call to get the starting and ending position of the selected
text then have your program resend an api call to reselect the
text and copy it.

@win(~EDIT1) is use to get the control but it can be a
class name or and ID #.

%A = @sendmsg(@win(~EDIT1),$0B0,0,0)
%B = @div(%A,65536)
%C = @diff(%A,@prod(%B,65536))

%B is the starting position and %C is the ending position.

Then the following code will reselect the text from %B to %C
and copy it.

%A = @sendmsg(@win(~EDIT1),$0B1,%B,%C)
%z = @sendmsg(@win(~EDIT1),$0301,0,0)

Give that a try.

Dr. Dread · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2002 7:22 am Post subject:

Thankx. I'll give it a spin today.

Dread