[python-win32] System wide text selection

[Mark Mc Mahon]

Hi,

You might want to look into pyHook (google for it - I don't have a
link right now).

Another option that might be much easier is to setup a global hotkey,
where the user selects the word, and clicks the hotkey (and you pop up
a window at that point with the translation(s).  You could probably
use WM_COPY to get teh text into teh clipboard and then get it from
there using your app (though it would be good manners to save teh
existing data first :-) ).

Mark

On 4/18/06, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:54:14 +0200, Dao Duy Huy <dao at tum.de> wrote:
>
> >I'm  writing  a dictionary german <> vietnamese for free use, which
> >should react on the mouse-click like babylon.
> >You click on a german word in any win-program and the dict program will
> >show you the translation in vietnamese and vice versa.
> >
> >But i couldn't find the way how i can select the word with the mouse
> >position...
> >
> >Can you show me how you solve the problem?
> >
>
>
> This is a difficult problem to solve, and it may be that Python is not
> the right language for it.
>
> You first have to figure out which window contains the point you want.
> Then, you have to figure out what KIND of window that is (text box, rich
> text control, static text, list box, custom control).  Then, you use
> THAT knowledge to decide how to ask the control to translate the X,Y
> coordinate into a row and column position.  Then, you can fetch the
> whole contents of that window, find the exact character, and work
> backwards and forwards to find the word boundaries.  Note that for some
> applications (like Word), you will have to use Word APIs to do this.
>
> It is complicted.  You will want to do a lot of web searching to see if
> you can find some good sample code.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
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