how to get the selected text in edit or input

[nacerbaaziz]

Hello my friends
I have an urgent question, please help.
How do I select all the text in the edit or input
And how to get the currently selected text
Please help urgently
Greetings and thanks for all

[Jos]

2 minutes ago, nacerbaaziz said:

Please help urgently

Where is the fire?

When you want to get proper help you really need to provide better information as it all depends on what kind of application you want to retrive this text from.   Is it an Browser or native Windows application? 
Have you tried anything yet or are you in such a hurry that you can't be bothered to do some research yourself first?

Jos

[nacerbaaziz]

Hi
no not from any external application, from the autoit script
For example

GUICreate("edit test")
$edit = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 50, 10, 100, 50)
_GUICtrlEdit_SetText($edit, "test, this is a test" & @crlf & "how to select all text from this edit please")

I searched a lot and i found several publications explaining this but didn't work.

to selecte all the text in edit or input  i found function:

_GUICtrlEdit_SetSel

But I did not succeed in identifying all the text
and about how to get the selected text it couldn't find function do this job and all roads reached don't do what I want.
Please help me in this.

[mikell]

2 hours ago, Jos said:

Where is the fire?

in a rear place about which we can't discuss here 

 

@nacerbaaziz

1 hour ago, nacerbaaziz said:

to selecte all the text in edit or input  i found function:
_GUICtrlEdit_SetSel
But I did not succeed in identifying all the text

Helpfile :
_GUICtrlEdit_SetSel ( $hWnd, $iStart, $iEnd )
Remarks : If the $iStart is 0 and the $iEnd is –1, all the text in the edit control is selected.

 

[nacerbaaziz]

Thank you Dear
the selection code works for me
now I need how to get selected text
to add it to the Clipboard
Please help me
thanks in advance

[InnI]

2 hours ago, nacerbaaziz said:

how to get selected text

 

[nacerbaaziz]

thank you verry much

[mikell]

A simple question
Instead of selecting all and then get the selection, why not directly use GuiCtrlRead which reads the whole content ?

[nacerbaaziz]

Welcome again
Dear I am currently creating a text editor for the blind users
In this editor I lacked these options
but now I have reached it successfully
Thanks to everyone who responded to my question
Greetings to all

Edited July 1, 2017 by nacerbaaziz