copy text from object with background program

[ober0330]

What I want to write is a small app that sits in the taskbar while the user is using other applications. If the user highlights some text in another app (say a browser), can I copy that text with my app sitting in the taskbar and paste it to another file? It would be like doing a Ctrl-C, only with another key code (F9 or something) and this would also dump it to either a file or an object in my app.

It sounds feasible, but I'm not sure how you'd go about copying the text from the other apps.

[ober0330]

Ok, let me ask another way... is there some way to have a background application trap the Ctrl-C/copy operation?

[Bruce Fox]

This may give you a some ideas.




Bruce.

[ober0330]

bah... it's all in what you search for. Thanks