Just to let everyone else know, David and I took this off list, and I found it has only worked intermittently for me.
Chip -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to retrieve marked text? Thanks Chip, for your efforts. Apparently, I am missing out something here. At least, I am not capable of applying your example, the way it stands. First of all, you define a Function, which takes one parameter; X1. What is it, that is supposed to be passed into the function? I thought that would be the actual highlighted text. But there you have my understanding. Further, you set an Object, called X. Not X1? Got confused about that one. After all, here is my real problem in applying your code. I have built my app, using the Script Framework app from Gw. As you know, it will automatically generate the code needed for registering hotkeys. I had it register the hotkey of Ctrl-Windows-C, and that one calls a sub called ClipboardCalculation. I have pasted the ClipboardCalculation sub below. That is, I have stripped it from any of the calculation code itself, since that might not be relevant in this case. What am I doing wrong? I don't know where the function you supplied me, would fit in? Guess I am pretty dumb-headed right now, but there you have me. Sorry for bothering you. Sub RegisterHotkeys() If Not SO_HotkeyManager Is Nothing Then If UBound(Split(INIFile(myINIFile).GetSectionKeys(SO_HotkeyManager.INISectionNa me), vbNullChar)) < 0 Then If Instr(INIFile(myINIFile).GetSectionKeys(SO_HotkeyManager.INISectionName), "Key01") <= 0 Then SO_HotkeyManager.Add "Key01", "Windows-C", "ManuallyCalculation" End If If Instr(INIFile(myINIFile).GetSectionKeys(SO_HotkeyManager.INISectionName), "Key02") <= 0 Then SO_HotkeyManager.Add "Key02", "Kontroll-Windows-C", "ClipboardCalculation" End If End If If Not registeredHotkeys Is Nothing Then If registeredHotkeys.Count > 0 Then registeredHotkeys.RemoveAll End If End If Set registeredHotkeys("Key01") = Keyboard.RegisterHotkey(SO_HotkeyManager.Key("Key01"), SO_HotkeyManager.Data("Key01"), Nothing, "Key01") Set registeredHotkeys("Key02") = Keyboard.RegisterHotkey(SO_HotkeyManager.Key("Key02"), SO_HotkeyManager.Data("Key02"), Nothing, "Key02") End If End Sub Sub ClipboardCalculation(myKeyId) 'This routine is called when the hotkey Kontroll-Windows-C is pressed. If Keyboard.KeyDescriberActive Then Speak myStrings(myKeyId & "_Description") Else 'Main routine functionality goes here msgbox highlight.clipstext ' I inserted this line, so as to check what would actually be sent forth. Simply just a debugging line. ' And, of course, it comes out empty. CurrencyCalculator( Highlight.ClipsText ) ' The CurrencyCalculator is a sub, that takes one parameter - the expression that is to be converted. In this case, it will have the highlighted text passed on to it. ' Since the user also will have a chance of typing an expression manually, I decided to put all the calculation (or conversion, if you want) into a seperate Sub routine. ' The one hotkey of my app, will result in an input box, where the user enters his manual expression. ' The other hotkey, will grab the highlighted text, and pass that on as an expression. ' In both cases, the expression will be passed on to the Sub routine called CurrencyCalculator. End If End Sub Thanks for all your feedback. I sure am missing some point here. Not too much brain activity, at 4AM in the morning. Smile! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chip Orange" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 2:19 AM Subject: RE: How to retrieve marked text? > Hi David, > > sorry for the delay in answering this for you. > > I just found today the .highlight property of the application object, > which > returns a clips collection of any selected (marked) text. I tried it out > by > opening an internet explorer web page, then opened an immediate mode > window > and typed in: > > function speakhl(x1): speak highlight.clipstext: end function > > set x=keyboard.registerhotkey("control-shift-z", "speakhl", , "") > > going back to my web page, selecting some text, and pressing my hotkey. > the > selected text was read out. > and it should work anywhere. > > hth, > > Chip > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to retrieve marked text? > > Chip, and the rest: > > I did try your suggested way of retrieving the marked text, by use of the > FocusedWindow.Control. Here is my findings. > > Firstly, if you are focused on an edit box, i.e you are positioned in a > Notepad document, the approach you gave me Chip, is working perfectly. > Thanks. > > The problem arises, if you are focused on a non-Edit box. Try for instance > the approach, if you are in a window under Explorer. That is, Open Windows > Explorer, and try to do the following two lines: > > Set FWC = FocusedWindow.Control > ST = FWC.Selection > > . You will get the following error message: > > Object doesn't support this property or method: 'FWC.Selection' > < 0x800A01B6 >. > > Any fix for this? Is there a way for my app to ignore the Selection, if it > cannot be retrieved in a given context? > > I need the routine in my Currency Calculator. The user should be able to > mark the text holding a currency value (like a price), for instance on a > webpage. This seems to work with the above approach. But including the two > lines in the app, and then running the app from a non-edit boxed window, > causes the error shown above. I want to allow the user to run the app - > for > manual entry of the currency value - from anywhere. Why I need a way to > have > the app ignore the Selected Text session, if it cannot handle it in a > given > case. > > Any fix? > > Thanks for helping out. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chip Orange" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 1:25 AM > Subject: RE: How to retrieve marked text? > > >> Hi David, >> >> You have at least two ways of doing this that I know about. the easiest >> for >> you is built into the window-eyes object model, and that is, anything >> which >> has text which can be selected is almost always an editbox (or >> richEditBox) >> control. you can look in the app developers manual under objects, and >> then >> the controls topic, and in there the types of controls topic, and finally >> in >> there you'll find the editbox entry. It's selection property returns a >> string of the text which is selected. >> >> I tried this out on notepad; and like most applications, it's focused >> window >> is nothing but one editbox control, so I just used the two lines below in >> immediate mode (after I had opened a file and selected some text), to see >> what the text was: >> >> set c=focusedwindow.control >> print c.selection >> >> If you need to know more than what text is selected (such as whether it's >> bolded etc.), then you'll have to likely do this another way; but if just >> the text will do what you want, then this should work in any editbox or >> richeditbox control. >> >> hth, >> >> Chip >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: David [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 5:02 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: How to retrieve marked text? >> >> >> Thanks for the idea. It might of course eventually work; but would >> require > >> a >> chunk of coding. >> >> GW staff, why not have a method implemented in the Toolkit, that would >> return marked text right away? >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Jared Wright <mailto:[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 10:51 PM >> Subject: Re: How to retrieve marked text? >> >> >> FYI there's a hotkey that does this in Wineyes itself, >> Ctrl+Shift+M by default. Don't know if there's a way to get at it through >> the object model or not. I guess you could overload the hotkey and hook >> onSpeak and dump what it says into a string if nothing else. >> On 9/5/2011 1:50 PM, David wrote: >> >> In my app, I want to be able to retrieve the text a user has >> marked. That is, if you for instance are in a text document, and use the >> Shift-Arrow keys to mark a text, then hit the hotkey of my app, the app >> should retrieve the text you have marked, and do its job with the >> retrieved >> text. Hopefully this could be performed whether you are in a text editor, >> in >> browse mode on a wbpage, or from any other situation where it is possible >> to >> mark text the normal way. >> >> Is there an easy to reach method in WE to achieve this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> >
