How to get the selected text without send("^c")?

[TheSaint]

You will never see the MsgBox, even nothing highlighted.

I may be wrong, but it seems to me, that when no text is highlighted, you want CTRL-C to return nothing (an empty variable) so that your MsgBox will display.

Perhaps you just need to clear the clipboard before sending CTRL-C.

There is a couple of methods to do that, the easiest is ClipPut("")

P.S. You should be (troubleshooting) using a second MsgBox in the first section of your If ... Else to see what is in fact on the clipboard.

[wo52616111]

I may be wrong, but it seems to me, that when no text is highlighted, you want CTRL-C to return nothing (an empty variable) so that your MsgBox will display.

Perhaps you just need to clear the clipboard before sending CTRL-C.

There is a couple of methods to do that, the easiest is ClipPut("")

P.S. You should be (troubleshooting) using a second MsgBox in the first section of your If ... Else to see what is in fact on the clipboard.

Thank you for reply.

In Visual Studio or Sublime Text(PLEASE TRY) or some other coding tools, we send("^c") when we highlighting nothing, we will get a line of text; When we highlighting some text then send("^c"), we get the text highlighted. You will always copy some text, even you did not highlight any text.

[BrewManNH]

In non-Text Editor programs, pressing CTRL-C when nothing is highlighted, you get nothing in the clipboard. Try it in IE, FF, Chrome, Notepad, any other program you can think of, and see what you get.

 

[wo52616111]

In non-Text Editor programs, pressing CTRL-C when nothing is highlighted, you get nothing in the clipboard. Try it in IE, FF, Chrome, Notepad, any other program you can think of, and see what you get.

 

I said I need my script work in Sublime text and VS, you tell me go try in IE, FF, Chrome...

Edited October 11, 2015 by wo52616111

[BrewManNH]

The problem is that the programs you're using it on are the ones with the problem, not AutoIt. Unless there's an API for the programs that allow you to get the selected text without using CTRL-C then you're out of luck.

[JohnOne]

I believe the problem here is non standard controls and how they deal with the WM_COPY messsage. VS editor has such a control.

If Ctrl and c does not even do what you want then you are indeed in for a world of frustration.

That and the programmatic way will also cause you pain, try it on chrome for example, the active control is not the one where the text actually resides.

#include <WinAPI.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

Sleep(5000) ; activate window and select test

ConsoleWrite(copyWithoutCtrlC() & @LF)

Func copyWithoutCtrlC()
    ClipPut("")
    Local $hwnd = WinGetHandle("[ACTIVE]")
    Local $scontrol = ControlGetFocus($hwnd)
    Local $hcontrol = ControlGetHandle($hwnd, "", $scontrol)
    _SendMessage($hcontrol, $WM_COPY)
    Return ClipGet()
EndFunc   ;==>copyWithoutCtrlC

Ctrl and c does not by it's nature return text when nothing is highlighted, it will do nothing and leave whatever was already there, with the VS IDE it gets the text of the current line the cursor is at, because that's how that control, rolls.

So I believe your reasons for not using "^c" are invalid, it is by far the best way there is.

If it is just the sending of keystrokes you dislike then you need to research how that operation works by following the API usage in some fashion or other.