Hi Charles, Forgiving my lack of familiarity with VS, couldn't you find
out what Window the edit pane is with the Immed script? Since it retains
knowledge of the active and focused windows before it gets focus, just
put focus in the desired window and have Immed print some sort of
identifying statement, such as the window name or classname.
Additionally, if you haven't seen them yet, let me call your attention
both to the Treeview script Aaron wrote as well as Jamal's Harvest
Window script, both of which can be very useful when trying to figure
out what windows are giving you what information.
Best,
Jared
Charles Steyn wrote:
Hi Aaron,
Thanks very much for your response. How do you get the clip information
from the window when you do not know which window to query? In the case
of the VS.Net IDE there are more than 130 child windows of the
ActiveWindow. Not 1 of these windows has the name or type VSEditPane.
This is the name of the editor window if you look at the Reclass dialog.
Regards
Charles Steyn
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 August 2008 18:30
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Getting text from Visual Studio editor
Charles Steyn wrote:
Today I spent a few hours trying to modify my copy of the SelectText
script to work in Visual Studio. I used the Immed script to try and
get
text from the Visual Studio editor without any success.
Print focusedwindow.control.text yields nothing although this works in
other editors such as notepad.
That's because this isn't a standard control, so it doesn't support the
standard control methods and properties (like .Text).
The NativeObjectModel property does not work at all for vS.
That's completely up to Microsoft. So far, the only windows we've found
that support the NativeObjectModel are some Microsoft Office
applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), and rich edit controls. There
may be others, but that's about it.
After experimenting with the Children.FilterByName method I eventually
tried the following:
print ActiveWindow.Children.FilterByName("text
editor")(1).Control.Text
This only yields "text editor" the same as the window name and type.
That's really no different than doing the FocusedWindow.Control.Text
method you tried. Since it's not a standard edit control, you won't be
able to get text using the Control object of that window.
Is it possible to get and select text with the WE object model or
should
I rather look at the Visual Studio object model for this
functionality?
If the Studio OM already has that functionality, then it would be
quicker to take advantage of it. That being said, you can get all of the
clips in that window, and determine which ones are selected. There are
caveats to that, like when text scrolls off the screen and such, but
with some work, it can be done.
Aaron
