Webbrowser control - Detecting Selected Text event

[Bishop]

Does anyone know how to detect when inside the webbrowser control that a user has selected text?

The only way I know how to (force the system to press Ctrl+C and check the contents of clipboard) does not work in my program correctly since other events occur at the same time that hinder its correct operation.

Suggestions?

[chenko]

Not possible :(

[Bishop]

After struggling for an afternoon... I found out a very close simulation....

Instead of forcing Ctrl+C into the system (using the USER32 keybd_event command), use a combination of two things:

MFC Copy command:
WebBrowser.ExecWB OLECMDID_COPY, OLECMDEXECOPT_DODEFAULT

Clipboard Type Detection:
And because we are looking for a text, not binary data, use Clipboard.GetText to detect the type of Clipboard data afterward...

Then use the same strategy: check the clipboard to see if it is non-null.. if it's null... no text has been selected... if it is non-null, text is selected.

Close as I can get.