Re: Sending CTRL+C to the active window (notepad and word)

From:

"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:13:00 -0500

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"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Try WM_COPY. Though it may not work either.
Generally, it's considered rude to mess with a clipboard. It should only
be done on an user's request.

How do we know the user didn't request it? Maybe he's repurposing an IR
remote control to have text editing operations on it. So while the warning
is a good idea, telling the user he's breaking things when we don't know the
whole story, as you and Tim have done, is a bit excessive.

"Frank Uray" <FrankUray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi all

I have a background application and I
want to get the current selected Text,
no matter what application is active .

I have tried to following:
System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.Send("^(c)");
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(200);
string SelectedText =
System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.GetText(System.Windows.Forms.TextDataFormat.Text);

In Notepad, when I run this code twice it works,
in Word it does not work at all ????

Does anybody know how to do this ?
I want to do the same like when I press CTRL+C
in windows, if there is something (somewhere) selected,
it will be copied to the clipboard.
No window needs to be activated because the application is
running in background.

My application is coded in C#,
I maybe need some ideas how to implement
the C++ code in C# ...

Thanks a lot for any comments
and best regards
Frank Uray