Pointed at word / AutoIT window keypress

[carlton 0]

Hi,

Firstly, I would just to say how brilliant AutoIT is and how shocked I am that it's free!

Can you guys help me with the following:

1. Can AutoIT be used to return the currently pointed at word? I'm talking about grabbing words from something like Notepad, not IE. Using textbox commands I can get the current text cursor location, but I don't know how you would translate the mouse position to the textbox co-ords - help!!!

2. I have an AutoIT window with a listbox on it. I want a space bar press to signal that a value has been selected and to close the window. I can achieve this using a hotkey, but does anyone know of a quicker and simpler method? e.g. in VB this would be trapped by the listbox keypress event.

Thanks

[Thatsgreat2345 0]

1. Can AutoIT be used to return the currently pointed at word? I'm talking about grabbing words from something like Notepad, not IE. Using textbox commands I can get the current text cursor location, but I don't know how you would translate the mouse position to the textbox co-ords - help!!!

try controlgettext

2. I have an AutoIT window with a listbox on it. I want a space bar press to signal that a value has been selected and to close the window. I can achieve this using a hotkey, but does anyone know of a quicker and simpler method? e.g. in VB this would be trapped by the listbox keypress event.

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[carlton 0]

try controlgettext

Can you give me anymore than that?

I can read the word closest to the text cursor using ControlCommand, but I don't know how I can translate the current mouse position into a text box co-ord. Has anyone else tried this?

If it was a fixed width font then I guess I could calculate the number of lines down and characters across, but it's not fixed width so it'll need a little magic!

[Ármányos Kő 0]

Can you give me anymore than that?

I can read the word closest to the text cursor using ControlCommand, but I don't know how I can translate the current mouse position into a text box co-ord. Has anyone else tried this?

If it was a fixed width font then I guess I could calculate the number of lines down and characters across, but it's not fixed width so it'll need a little magic!

I've been trying to get the answer for the same question ("...how I can translate the current mouse position into a text box co-ord....") ending up solving the issue on a totally different way.

This script-part gets the length of the text up to the caret when wanted. I could use this data to return the caret later on by using _GUICtrlEditLineScroll or _GUICtrlEditSetSel

Send("{SHIFTDOWN}")

Send("{CTRLDOWN}")

Send("{HOME}")

Send("^c")

Send("{SHIFTUP}")

Send("{CTRLUP}")

send("{left}") ;returns to the original caret pos.

$uptocaret = Clipget()

$uptocaretlength = Stringlen($uptocaret)

As $uptocaret includes @CRLF parts, you can count which line you are in. Also, you can see how far you are from the last @CRLF.

However this only works if the caret is in the control.

If you think on hovering above text and read out words, the only hint I can give you is this> to find out the line number "under" the mouse I've created a small routin to check quickly the MousePos Y difference while doing a DOWNARROW, UPARROW keystroke. This was to measure the character size vertically. This measuring took place right after GUICreate and GUICtrlCreateEdit. Calculating desktopsize and window position values, I could manage to see above which line the mouse was later on.

Let me know if anyone knows a solution to read out words (sentences) when hovering above "any wondow".