Getting highlighted text in windows

[Fangs78]

Hello.

Is it possible to get highlighted text using AutoIT?

What I mean is, can you make a script which executes when something is

highlighted (in any program) and gets the highlighted text?

I know it is possible some way or another, as a program like JAWS does

this to read aloud highlighted text. I just wonder how they did it.

regards,

Tomas

[BigDod]

Hello.

Is it possible to get highlighted text using AutoIT?

What I mean is, can you make a script which executes when something is

highlighted (in any program) and gets the highlighted text?

I know it is possible some way or another, as a program like JAWS does

this to read aloud highlighted text. I just wonder how they did it.

regards,

Tomas

I do not know how JAWS does it but try this

; Press Esc to terminate script

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Terminate")
HotKeySet("{F3}", "Showhighlight") 

While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd


Func Terminate()
    Exit 0
EndFunc

Func Showhighlight()
    Send("^{INS}")
    $text = ClipGet()
    MsgBox(0,"What is highlighted", $text)
EndFunc

[Fangs78]

Thanks!

I'll try that right away.

Edit :

I read and understood the code now. What it does is copy to the clipboard and

read from it, when someone hits F3.

I already thought of this myself, but didn't know that ctrl-ins does clipboard copying on all programs (nice!).

I really need to catch the event when anything is selected...does this exist in the win32 api? I have searched

for it, but have only found it for EDIT and RICHEDIT controls, which isn't enough.

I might have to settle for the user hitting a key to execute the get highlighted text func (I guess I could use the mouse-drag event

or shift-arrow system events, but would like to avoid it)

Edited November 3, 2005 by Fangs78