Cut Copy Paste Text

[lone_REBEL]

The problems I am facing is that I need to know the characters which are highlighted for copying. I want to get them. Also I need to know how to paste characters since sending the keys does not work as pasting it works just like you were pressing the keys. I need to paste them, not send them.

[Fazi]

The problems I am facing is that I need to know the characters which are highlighted for copying. I want to get them. Also I need to know how to paste characters since sending the keys does not work as pasting it works just like you were pressing the keys. I need to paste them, not send them.

not sure coping from where and past to where

Below code copy selected text in text1 and past it in Text2

Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
'Copy
Me.Text1.SelStart = 2
Me.Text1.SelLength = 5
VB.Clipboard.Clear
VB.Clipboard.SetText Me.Text1.SelText

'Past
Me.Text2.Text = VB.Clipboard.GetText
VB.Clipboard.Clear

End Sub

[lone_REBEL]

I need my code to work globally, for all applications not just my own form. I mean it should work O.K. to get the highlighted text in a notepad window and pasting it in a wordpad window. Bringing the window to front or giving it the focus is not the problem.
I mean I create a hotkey for my app and whenever that hotkey is pressed while any window is in the focus, my program should tell what text has been highlighted and if another hotkey is pressed, it should paste the text in the clipboard. Creating the hotkeys is not required in this problem, only getting and pasting the selected text.

[Fazi]

You can use,

Clipboard.clear
SendMessage (Notepad Edit Window Handle here, WM_COPY,0,0)

This will copy the selected text in the note pad to clipboard

Not sure hwo to past in to the word doucment.
but to past in to a text box, as stated in my first post,
me.text1.text=clipboard.gettext

[Fazi]

i forget,
you can also use the following on external applications. but not sure about word.

SendMessage (destination edit / text box handle here,wm_past,0,0)

above code will past the clipboard text in to a text or edit control window in your own or in an external application.