Charles,
As Jared mentioned, Immed is your friend. Put focus in the editor, pop
up Immed, and do:
print FocusedWindow.ClassName
Using Visual Studio 2008, I get back:
VsTextEditPane
If I do:
print FocusedWindow.ModuleName, I get back:
MSENV
With that knowledge, I can then do:
Set codeWindows =
ActiveWindow.Children.FilterByClassAndModule("VsTextEditPane, "MSENV")
If I then do:
print codeWindows.Count
I get back 9. I know that I'm only interested in one of those, so now
it's time to narrow things down. I know I want the window that has the
text in it, so I can look through each one, and see which window has
an acceptable number of clips, by doing:
For Each wObj In codeWindows : print wObj.Clips.Count : Next
That gives me back:
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
51
Bingo. That window with 51 clips is most likely the one I want. So now
I'll do:
For Each wObj In codeWindows : If wObj.Clips.Count > 0 Then : Set
codeWindow = wObj : Edit For : End If : Next
To verify that codeWindow got set, I can do:
print TypeName(codeWindow)
Which gives me back:
Window
So now I have a Window object representing the window that contains
all the text I'm interested in. So now it's time to iterate through
the clips, and print out all the ones that are text. I have a header
file currently loaded in the IDE, so I can get the text of the window
by doing this:
For Each clip In codeWindow.Clips : If clip.Type = ctText Then : print
clip : End If : Next
And I get back:
#ifndef
_SWPMAIN_
#define
_SWPMAIN_
#include
"swap.h"
// Declare Menu constants
#define
LOGON 1
#define
SELECT_RECIPIENT 2
#define
ENTER_RECIPIENT 3
#define
GET_DETAILS 4
#define
SEND_NO_UI 5
#define
SEND_UI 6
#define
SEND_ATTACH 7
#define
CREATE_MSG 8
#define
LIST_INBOX 9
#define
READ_MAIL 10
#define
LOGOFF 11
#define
EXIT 12
#define
REFRESH 13
void
main(
int
argc,
char
*argv[ ],
char
*envp[ ] );
void
PrintMenuToConsole (
void
);
#endif
Viola! Note that you're only going to get the text that's visible on
screen, since that's what clips are. So if I make my IDE window really
small, then do the same thing above, I might only get:
#ifndef
_SWPMAIN_
#define
_SWPMAIN_
#include
"swap.h"
// Declare Menu constants
#define
LOGON 1
But that's one way to get clips from a specific window. I hope that's
helpful.
Aaron
Charles Steyn wrote:
Hi list and especially Aaron,
Last week I reported a possible regression to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The
contents of the search results list box in MSDN library is not spoken or
displayed in Braille with WE 7 Beta 2. This is not the on-line library,
but the disk-based library where Microsoft Document Explorer is the
actual running application. This worked fine in WE 6.1. The reason
for me writing to this list about
it is that I can get the correct contents of the list box by getting the
text with the Immediate Window script:
Print FocusedWindow.Control.Text. As I move through the list box, the
corect information is retrieved in the immediate window. It should be
possible to fix this bug with a script if it cannot be
fixed internally before WE 7.0 is released. Again I cannot stress the
value of scripting and especially the
Immediate Windows script enough. I can even get the text of certain
parts of Nokia PC Suite such as the opening screen and the About box by
using:
Print FocusedWindow.Accessible.Name
Thanks.
Charles Steyn
