Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I want to get text from current active line (the line where the caret is) from any text editor that is currently in focus. My program that will get that text is working in background and doesn’t have a GUI.
How to get that line of text?
What you’re asking for is impossible. Its easy to prove since programs can define their own controls and what windows messages to handle (or not handle at all!). The only thing you can really do is something like this. It may work for some text editors who will respond to the WM_GETTEXT message, but you’re likely to get nothing or everything. If you’re targetting a specific editor, they may have something publically defined to get a piece of text, but you’re going to have lots of trouble getting something to work for every possible Windows text input control.