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[Opal Monkey]

I'm wondering what the best way to insert text around a chunk of selected text is?

I'm using a GUI where the buttons insert various text. I'm using SendInput to send commands, because they are multi-line. They look something like this:

[pajenn]

You could try "ControlGet, outputVar, Selected,..." to get the selected text, append new text to both sides of it, then use "Control, EditPaste,..." to replace the selected text.

For example, in Notepad, it would work something like this (with notepad active and some text selected):

[Leef_me]

Tested, see the sample runs at the bottom of the script.

You could probably use the variable %clipboard% instead of ^v
except I >>think<< you have to contend with `r`n at the end of the text.


I had to change your sendinput to Send and change SetKeyDelay.
I was getting 'misfires' from the send & sendinput statements that resulted in my window being locked, like Win-L had been typed.

[Opal Monkey]

For the time being I'll just use, what I think is, the simplest option. I'm just using Leef's first example. Using SendInput seems to be working fine with that for me. This should also be easy to add to everything I've already got.

I'll have to try out the other options and see how they go. I've got Notepad++ 5.4.4 (Unicode) at the moment, so I'll skip that one.

Thanks, Leef_me and pajenn, for the help!

[Opal Monkey]

Hi, Pajenn.
I thought I would let you know, after 6 days of learning and a few light bulbs going on in my head, I came to a solution similar to your second idea. Mine now looks like this:

[ribbet.1]

OpalMonkey, here is my solution to a similar problem. It may not be perfect yet but it's getting better.

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=303487#303487