Selecting text?

[Sori]

I'm surprised I'm having such a hard time finding this information...

I'm simply wondering how you would select/highlight text from a pre-defined string.

For example:

"Sally went to the store."

selectText("went to")

and it would highlight it, as if someone clicked and dragged their mouse.

 

[JLogan3o13]

Sori, you have enough posts here to realize that is nowhere near enough information. Where is the text that is being selected (web page, inputbox, word document, etc.)? How you obtain the string goes a long way in determining how you can manipulate it.

How about posting your code, as well as a more defined explanation of what you're trying to do, rather than asking us to guess

Edited March 3, 2014 by JLogan3o13

[Sori]

I don't have any specific code to what I'm trying to do, yet.

The where is a bit difficult, because it's part of a SAPI based application, so I need the ability to select the text regardless of where it is.

I was thinking of doing something like a looped search to find the specified text.

For now, let's say that the text is in a notepad window, and I'll see what I can do from there.

[JLogan3o13]

You could use ControlGetText to get the text of a Notepad document. You would then have to decide how you want to parse through it.

ControlGetText("[CLASS:Notepad]", "", "Edit1")

[Sori]

I was hoping for some extra laziness, but I guess paragraph code will have to do xD

Thank you

[JLogan3o13]

The help you receive is directly proportional to the amount of information you supply