David, part one of your question is easy: just use the ON ERROR RESUME NEXT command before your two lines, and then afterwards, use the ERR object and look at it's NUMBER property to see if those lines generated an error (if so, the NUMBER property will be something other than zero).
then finally, use the ON ERROR GOTO 0 command to return to normal error handling: On error resume next set c=focusedwindow.control s = c.selection if err.number = 0 then ' it's working speak s end if On error goto 0 I will have to do a little research to see how this might work in a browseMode window. I'll let you know. Chip -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to retrieve marked text? Hmm! Chip, I need get back once more. I said it seemed to work on a webpage. That is not the case. I meant to say, that the FocusedWindow.Control.Selection, does work in Notepad - which has an edit box, of course. But it seems a webpage - in browse mode - does not work. It throws the same error on you. Telling that the object does not support the Selection property or method. Any other way around? Thanks again, and sorry for the confusion. ----- 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, > > > >
