Burgs Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Hello all, I'd like to be able to 'select' a string, either in a GUI or on a website by 'highlighting' it with a drag/drop operation. Ideally then only the characters contained within the 'selected' area would be returned as a string and I could then do some additional processing with them. Is this possible? I know of a way to take a (full) string and measure it's horizontal (X axis) length in pixels...I figure then the characters 'selected' by a drag/drop movement could then be read out of that string...if the pixel length of the drag/drop could be determined. I am not aware of a way to do that however. For example if there is a string = "This is a sentence of a string", and I click/drag "This is a sentence" then those characters would be returned as a separate string...if possible? Any suggestions of possible commands that might accomplish this would be appreciated. I thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malkey Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Try this. HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_Terminate") ; Press Esc to terminate script HotKeySet("+!z", "_ShowString") ; Press "Shift-Alt-z" keys to capture selected text. While 1 Sleep(100) WEnd Func _ShowString() Local $sCB = ClipGet() ; Save existing contents of clipboard. ClipPut("") Send("^c") ; Send Ctrl-c to copy selected text to clipboard. Local $sSelTxt = ClipGet() If $sSelTxt = "" Then MsgBox(0, "Selected Text", " No highlighted text", 3) Else MsgBox(0, "Selected Text", $sSelTxt, 3) ; Show selected text EndIf ClipPut($sCB) EndFunc ;==>_ShowString Func _Terminate() Exit EndFunc ;==>_Terminate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgs Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 Howdy, Wow thanks for that response...I have not tried it yet but it is a great idea to use the Clipboard, that should work just fine. Hehe I would not have thought to utilize the Clipboard...clever. Thank you again. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgs Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 Hi again, I gave your method a try and it works quite well...I thank you for that. I just have a couple of other questions relating to it: Instead of your example when you call the function using 'shift/alt/z' presses I use it in a 'mouse right-click' event called function. When I highlight text within a website it works fine except for the 'context menu' that the browser displays upon a 'right-click' gets in the way a bit...any idea how to suppress the browser context menu...? Also for some reason I cannot highlight text that are 'Label' controls within my GUI. Any control I create using the 'GUICtrlCreateLabel' seems to resist being 'highlighted/selected' using a 'click/drag' over the text string characters...anybody have an idea why this is and how to enable my 'Label' controls to be 'clicked/dragged' to highlight/select the characters within them...??? I thank all in advance for any suggestions. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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