Re: Sending WM_COPY message to IE.
If it were me, I would not send my question to so many newsgroups,
especially not to newsgrouls for which the question is off-topic. I would be
concerned that the person that could help the most would ignore the question
so as not to reward the behaviour.
Also, if it were me, I would try to bypass the clipboard. I would design the
program to respond according to the type of window. Edit controls are
different from "Rich" Edit controls which are different from IE windows. Use
of the clipboard means that whatever is in the clipboard gets replaced,
which could be an inconvenience. Hopefully there is a way to preserve the
clipboard contents but I don't know the details of how and such.
"Ricardo Vazquez" <rvazquez@dummy.com> wrote in message
news:%23VjNxmhcHHA.2088@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Hello everybody,
In short:
Sending WM_COPY message from my app to Word, Excel or Notepad works. But
sending it to Internet Explorer, Firefox or Outlook Express does not work:
the clipboard remains unchanged.
In long:
I'm writting the following application:
- no visible user interface
- when the user is over any text on any other app (Word, Access, Internet
Explorer, Outlook...), he selects a telephone number, he presses F9, and
the computer will make the call to that number for him.
(Image you are browsing a hotel's site, you want to contact it, on the web
page you see the phone to call, so you just select it and press F9! I find
it nice)
? There's no problem from the telephony point of view (CTI).
? I'm also able to "listen" that the user has pressed F9, no matter which
application had the focus (I hook the WM_CHAR message of any window using
the idea found here: http://www.codeproject.com/system/KeyLogger.asp)
? And I can also send a WM_COPY message to that window where F9 has been
pressed, so that I load the selected text up to the clipboard. (code
below)
? Then I can retrieve the content of the clipboard (code found here:
http://www.codeproject.com/clipboard/archerclipboard1.asp) and, if it is a
phone number, I order the makeCall.
My problem is, as I said:
This works fine with MS Word, Excel, Notepad... BUT sending WM_COPY
message to Internet Explorer, Firefox & Outlook Express does not work: the
clipboard remains unchanged.
I also tried to send this message recursively not only to the actual
focused window, but also to all of its parents. But it still does not
work.
I also tried to PostMessage, instead of SendMessage, but this didn't work
either.
Are these applications somehow "protected" against sending messages to
their message-queues?
Any ideas on how could I solve my problem or a better approach?
Thank you!
Ricardo V?zquez.
Madrid, Spain.
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CODE:
(as you see most of it is commented out: I tried so many messages to
send...
This works fine with: Notepad, MS Word & Excel
but it doesn't work with: Internet Explorer, Firefox & Outlook express)
HWND hTemp = m_hWinInFocus;
do
{
sendCtrlCopy(hTemp))
}
while(hTemp = ::GetParent(hTemp));
(...)
BOOL CHookF9::sendCtrlCopy(HWND wnd)
{
BOOL bRes = FALSE;
/*
::SendMessage(wnd, WM_KEYDOWN, 0x11, 0x1D0001);
::SendMessage(wnd, WM_KEYDOWN, 0x11, 0x401D0001);
::SendMessage(wnd, WM_KEYDOWN, 0x43, 0x2E0001);
::SendMessage(wnd, WM_CHAR, 0x3, 0x2E0001);
::SendMessage(wnd, WM_KEYUP, 0x43, 0xC02E0001);
::SendMessage(wnd, WM_KEYUP, 0x11, 0xC01D0001);
*/
::SendMessage(wnd, WM_COPY, 0x00, 0x00);
/*
bRes = ::PostMessage(wnd, WM_KEYDOWN, 0x11, 0x1D0001);
if (!bRes) return FALSE;
bRes = ::PostMessage(wnd, WM_KEYDOWN, 0x11, 0x401D0001);
if (!bRes) return FALSE;
bRes = ::PostMessage(wnd, WM_KEYDOWN, 0x43, 0x2E0001);
if (!bRes) return FALSE;
bRes = ::PostMessage(wnd, WM_CHAR, 0x3, 0x2E0001);
if (!bRes) return FALSE;
bRes = ::PostMessage(wnd, WM_KEYUP, 0x43, 0xC02E0001);
if (!bRes) return FALSE;
bRes = ::PostMessage(wnd, WM_KEYUP, 0x11, 0xC01D0001);
if (!bRes) return FALSE;
bRes = ::PostMessage(wnd, WM_COPY, 0x00, 0x00);
if (!bRes) return FALSE;
*/
return TRUE;
}