Selected Text Tools

Ideas for new features & functions

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Should Tools for Selected Text be Provided?

5: Important, even if speed/efficiency is decreased/degraded.
3
75%
4: Somewhat important
0
No votes
3: I'm okay either way
1
25%
2: Somewhat unimportant
0
No votes
1: Unimportant, even if speed and efficiency remain unaffected
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 4

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Bob Hansen
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Selected Text Tools

Post by Bob Hansen » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:29 pm

It would be helpful to have some tools to deal with selected text.

For instance what is the column/mouse position of beginning of Selected text? What about the ending coordinates? How to copy for processing?

Examples of use:

If text has been selected by system vs. mouse, we cannot copy to clipboard.

When doing find on a Web Page, text is highlighted, but no way to get mouse to that position. Searching for pixels takes too long.

If text has been selected, and mouse has moved, but not clicked, cannot get mouse back to position.

If cursor is at end/beginning of selection, then move mouse to other end/beginning position.
Hope this was helpful..................good luck,
Bob
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Post by support » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:42 pm

Nice idea, but almost impossible to make this work against every possible application and custom control. For ClipMagic we had to find a way to get the coords of the caret of the focused edit control. It took months and even that only works 75% of the time. I can see this being possible against standard edit controls but couldn't vouch for anything else. That's not to say we won't look into it.
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