Get Selected Text

[User 3450649]

Hi Friends I'm trying to get selected text from another program.like notepad,word and IE,I have an application which is running on system startup and it's show on the system tray. Now, whan I select some text from another program e.g. MS Word, IE, notepad, and then I hotkey my applicatin, I need to get selected text! If some know the idea behind it then please help Thanks to all

[Skippums]

You need to do the following steps: 1. Get the handle to the target window. Use Spy++ to find out window names & classes to use with the Windows API. 2. Send a message to the window to get the selected text. That is all that is needed, but you will need to DllImport a number of windows API calls to do it. Let me know if you need more clarification. The documentation on the Win API method signitures can be found here[^].

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