Read a selected text

[Wozn]

Hello,

I'm new to AutoIt and right now I'm writing my second code.

The code already selects a texts and now it should read the marked text and check if the text contains the word "yes". If the text contains "yes" the word should be changed into "no".

My question: is there a way to get the text into the code and check it?

Thank you.

Wozn

[FrancescoDiMuro]

Hi @Wozn, and welcome to the AutoIt forums 
Could you please post the code and tell us from where are you trying to get the text?
 

[Wozn]

Hi, thank you @FrancescoDiMuro.   Here is  my code:

WinActivate("Blog Wikipedia - Mozilla Firefox")
MouseClick("left", 1445, 953, 3) ; select a part of the text
Sleep(500)

; copy and check

WinActivate("Blog - Word")
Send("^v")

I am trying to get the text from my browser and paste the checked text to word. (the words "yes" and "no" were just examples to make the question short)

[Danp2]

There are more reliable ways to do this than relying on MouseClick / Send. You may want to take a look at the Webdriver UDF (see my signature). There's also a UDF for MS Word.

[Nine]

; copy and check

Send ("^c")
$Str = Clipget ()
; To do some modifications to the $Str :
; use StringInStr() to search
; use StringReplace () to change 
ClipPut ($Str)

; there you go

as it was already stated, there is more reliable ways to do what you want but this will give an early start.

Happy scripting !

[Wozn]

Thank you. It's working