Get/Set Text of external app active control?

[MilesAhead 22]

Anyone know of a UDF or other method that would be equivalent of

$text = GetActiveControlText()

$success = SetActiveControlText("some text")

??

I'm wondering why it's required to get controlID. Seems like there should be an equivalent to

$text = WinGetText("[ACTIVE]")

What I'm trying to do is copy text out of a browser edit(like you would use on a forum) then pasted it back after editing using an external editor. I don't want to have to know all the class names of all the edit controls of all the browsers. It's already been done. I'm just trying to figure out if I can implement it myself. I already have a copy out to temp file using clipboard, but pasting the temp file back seems mysterious.

Edited September 14, 2011 by MilesAhead

[SmOke_N 199]

ControlGetFocus()

[MilesAhead 22]

Thanks. Copy out is easy. Maybe I'll just stick with that. Esp. since somebody else already did paste back in.