How can I read selected text in another application, by vb program?
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From: Family Tree Mike on 31 Oct 2009 15:45 ptpwjp wrote: >> The newsgroups you have listed are mutually exclusive. Do you want a VB >> 6 recommendation, or a vb.net recommendation? The vb.general.discussion >> group would be for a VB 6 question while the dotnet.languages.vb group >> would be for .Net. > Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition > > >> After deciding your platform, you need to clarify how this would work. Do >> you want a user in your code to initiate a copy of the selected data >> somehow? > I want to transform text selected by user , > (only if he will want to -only if he push bottom at my application), > and write new version of text to file. > > > You are going to call: SendMessage(hwndChild, Win32.User.EM_GETSELTEXT, 0, builder) builder is a stringbuilder object to receive the text. hwndChild is the hwnd to the control to copy the text. Look at http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/coredll/SendMessage.html to see how you declare and call this windows function. You would need to find the hwndChild by first identifying the main window of the external process. The System.Diagnostic.Process class will help you find the main window handle to all other processes. You could copy any text from all of the processes, or you could identify the process somehow and use the SendMessage function with that hwnd. BTW, I've dropped the vb6 group from this reply. -- Mike
From: ptpwjp on 31 Oct 2009 15:47 >> Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition > > Please repost your question in new thread, or remove > microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion from your reply. Why?
From: ptpwjp on 31 Oct 2009 16:17 Thank you very much, > You would need to find the hwndChild by first identifying the main window > of the external process. The System.Diagnostic.Process class will help > you find the main window handle to all other processes. You could copy > any text from all of the processes, or you could identify the process > somehow and use the SendMessage function with that hwnd. but , which of a lot of process is the last process? I send ALT + TAB from my application, to be in last process, but in this situation my application lost processor, and don't do next instruction :).
From: mayayana on 31 Oct 2009 17:31 > >> Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition > > > > Please repost your question in new thread, or remove > > microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion from your reply. > Why? > Because you posted your question in two groups that are for completely different things. VB.Net is covered by microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb. The other group is for regular VB. (VB6 and lower.) You're using VB.Net. The two VBs have very little in common. It's confusing because they're both often just called "VB", but the answer to your question would be different in each. It's made even more confusing because Microsoft has created a hodge podge of different names and versions. VB.Net has a lot of names: VB7. 8, 9. VB 1, 1.1, 2, 3, 3.5. VB 2003, 2005, 2008. Those are different versioning systems based on whether one is referring to the language, the framework version, or the Visual Studio version. But they're all VB.Net! Regular VB (mostly VB 5/6) is a product that produces compiled software and is COM-centric. VB.Net is Java-like, producing JIT-compiled "assemblies", using the ..Net Framework, which is similar to the Java VM. So the only thing shared by the two VBs, besides the name, is a vague similarity in the appearance of their code.
From: Larry Serflaten on 31 Oct 2009 16:43
"ptpwjp" <ptpwjp(a)op.pl> wrote in message news:hci49n$9re$1(a)news.onet.pl... > > >> Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition > > > > Please repost your question in new thread, or remove > > microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion from your reply. > Why? Because you have targeted two distinctly different languages. Specific answers for one language generally do not apply to the other. This dotnet group is the more apropreate place for your question. Now that you know where to ask your .Net questions, you do not need to include the general discussion group which discusses VB6 and prior versions. Starting a new thread would allow you to remove the un-needed group.... |