Clipboard Select Event HELP!

Hello. I'm asking on how to use the clipboard select event in vb6 to get the value of the highlighted text and put it in a variable; to display the text in a msgbox. please help me. i'm new in vb6 programming.

To get the clipboard content, try

vb Code:

Dim s As String
    s = Clipboard.GetText(vbCFText)
    MsgBox s

Welcome to the forums :wave:

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Originally Posted by argiejulaton

to get the value of the highlighted text

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What highlighted text? Where is it highlighted?

There are built in VB6 functions that deal with storing and retriving data from the clipboard object:
Clipboard.GetText - retrieves text from the clipboard
Clipboard.SetText - puts text on the clipboard

Without more details on what you are doing and how you are doing it, thats the best I can do.

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Originally Posted by Hack

Welcome to the forums :wave:What highlighted text? Where is it highlighted?

There are built in VB6 functions that deal with storing and retriving data from the clipboard object:
Clipboard.GetText - retrieves text from the clipboard
Clipboard.SetText - puts text on the clipboard

Without more details on what you are doing and how you are doing it, thats the best I can do.

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oh! thank you :) what i mean is when you highlight a text it's automatically store the value of the highlighted in a variable.

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Originally Posted by argiejulaton

oh! thank you :) what i mean is when you highlight a text it's automatically store the value of the highlighted in a variable.

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Nothing get's automatically stored into value, you'll have to do that yourself:

Get the selected text into clipboard:

Code:

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Call Clipboard.clear
call Clipboard.SetText(mid$(Textbox1.Text, Textbox1.SelStart, Textbox1.SelLength))

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get Clipboard text into variable:

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Dim s as string
s = Clipboard.GetText

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Ofcourse if you just need the highlighted text into a mesagebox/variable and you are on the form where the textbox is, you'll just use:

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call MsgBox(mid$(Textbox1.Text, Textbox1.SelStart, Textbox1.SelLength))

Dim s as string
s = mid$(Textbox1.Text, Textbox1.SelStart, Textbox1.SelLength)

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Originally Posted by SuperDre

Nothing get's automatically stored into value, you'll have to do that yourself:

Get the selected text into clipboard:

Code:

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Call Clipboard.clear
call Clipboard.SetText(mid$(Textbox1.Text, Textbox1.SelStart, Textbox1.SelLength))

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get Clipboard text into variable:

Code:

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Dim s as string
s = Clipboard.GetText

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Ofcourse if you just need the highlighted text into a mesagebox/variable and you are on the form where the textbox is, you'll just use:

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call MsgBox(mid$(Textbox1.Text, Textbox1.SelStart, Textbox1.SelLength))

Dim s as string
s = mid$(Textbox1.Text, Textbox1.SelStart, Textbox1.SelLength)

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i'm asking for help; is it possible to get the data of a selected/highlighted text by just highlighting it. For example i'm now using a web browser and i want to copy a text from it. So from that the data of highlighted text will be stored in a variable. From that i'm just gonna use the variable for displaying purposes.

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For example i'm now using a web browser

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is the web browser in your program, or some other program?

it would appear that this question is not about the clipboard at all, more likely about textbox selected text in other program

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Originally Posted by argiejulaton

i'm asking for help; is it possible to get the data of a selected/highlighted text by just highlighting it. For example i'm now using a web browser and i want to copy a text from it. So from that the data of highlighted text will be stored in a variable. From that i'm just gonna use the variable for displaying purposes.

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It is possible but certainly not easy (if you are talking about webbrowser as in a separate application), but since you're asking this I don't think it's up your level of programming (not to put you down or something, but to accomplish something like you'll need to use the WinAPI and a lot of time), even then it might not even be possible. If it's using the webbrowser component in your own application than it's much easier (if I'm not mistaken).

The clipboard is meant to be user-directed.

I'm not sure why you'd think it makes sense for Windows to broadcast "Hey, there is something new selected somewhere" to every running program. For that matter a user might be running 18 different programs for different things and doing copy/paste all over for various purposes.

You might want to rethink the premise of this whole thing.

i totally agree with dilettante but here is a sample you can use or change to your needs

add a timer "Timer1" and a webbrowser "WebBrowser1"

vb Code:

Option Explicit
 
 
 Private Const VK_LBUTTON = &H1
 
 Private Type POINTAPI
    X As Long
    Y As Long
 End Type
 
Private Declare Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32.dll" (lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long
Private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal vKey As Long) As Integer
 
 
 
Private Function GetSelectedText() As String
 Dim htmlDoc As HTMLDocument
 Dim htmlRange As IHTMLTxtRange
 Dim SelectedText As String
 
   Set htmlDoc = WebBrowser1.Document
   Set htmlRange = htmlDoc.selection.createRange
 
 GetSelectedText = htmlRange.Text
End Function
 
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
WebBrowser1.Navigate "www.google.com"
Timer1.Interval = 200
Timer1.Enabled = False
End Sub
 
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Static MousePos As POINTAPI
Static Holding As Boolean
Static PrevX As Long
 
GetCursorPos MousePos
 
Select Case GetAsyncKeyState(VK_LBUTTON)
 
   Case 0 'Released
      Holding = False
   Case Is <> 0 'Down
      If Holding = True And MousePos.X <> PrevX Then
         Clipboard.SetText GetSelectedText
         Holding = False
      End If
    Holding = True
    PrevX = MousePos.X
End Select
 
End Sub
 
Private Sub Web1_DocumentComplete(ByVal pDisp As Object, URL As Variant)
Timer1.Enabled = True
End Sub

to use just select any text anywhere on webbrowser and it will be copied to your clipboard (right mouse click - Paste)