copy selected text in another application

[Edwin]

Hi,

I want to copy the selected text in a window of another app, I think
there are at least two approaches to do it:

1. send a WM_COPY message to the target window. not tried yet but
somebody said that IE dose not response to this message.
2. send key combination ctrl+C to the target window, will this work with
all windows?

Any tips and comments are welcomed. Thanks.

Edwin -- MindVisualizer -- Productive Visual Mind Mapping Software
http://www.innovationgear.com

[Remy Lebeau (TeamB)]

"Edwin" <nos...@domain.com> wrote in message
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> 1. send a WM_COPY message to the target window.
> not tried yet but somebody said that IE dose not
> response to this message.

To copy text from an IE browser window, you have to extract the
IHTMLDocument2 interface from the window first:

How to get IHTMLDocument2 from a HWND
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249232

With that, you can then access the selected text via the selection property:

IHTMLDocument2::selection Property
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752606.aspx

Or you can use the execCommand() method to send a Copy command:

IHTMLDocument2::execCommand Method
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752577.aspx

> 2. send key combination ctrl+C to the target window,
> will this work with all windows?

Not all, no.

Gambit

[Edwin]

Thanks for your great information!