Double clicking

[DumRat]

Hi,
I have this question which gives me nightmares these days. I need to make an application which can get the highlighted text in any window. Ex: When I run my app, and when I dbl click any word in notepad(say), the highlighted word should be available to my app.
I am talking in Win32 of course. There is one way that I found out. It uses a mouse hook, and on a dbl-click event, send a WM_COPY command to the foreground window, and then get the clipboard contents. I haven't tried this yet, but guess it'll work. But, can anyone tell me a more general way to get selected text from a window? Thanks.

[weaknessforcats]

That's the whole purpose of the clipboard.

Off you go.

[DumRat]

That's the whole purpose of the clipboard.

Off you go.

You sure that dbl-clicked highlighted content go to clipboard? Wikipedia says that UNIX does that, but it does not mention anything like that about windows. I do apologize, I have tried, but had little luck finding resources on this topic.

[weaknessforcats]

I believe in Windows you must implement the clipboard yourself.

In the case of double-clicking in notepad.exe, the highlighted text is availabkle to your app provided you have implemented the clipbaord. For its part, notepad can move the highlighed text to the clipboard on a ctrl+c (COPY) and your app can paste it by implementing ctrl+v (PASTE).

These COPY/PASTE are part of the clipboard API. You could, on one of your windows implement a copy to the clipboard every time a double-click was performed but this would conflict with the usual Windows paradigm of double-click means to select and execute, not make a copy.