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Guestz
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 Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:20 am Post subject: How to determine cursor position |
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Is there a way to determine the entry cursor position?
I don't mean the mouse position, I mean the where text shows up on the screen when you type.
I can't find anything in the tutorial on how to determine it's position.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:24 am Post subject: |
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| ControlGetPos might helps |
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None
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | A_CaretX and A_CaretY: The current X and Y coordinates of the caret (text insertion point). The coordinates are relative to the active window unless CoordMode is used to make them relative to the entire screen. If there is no active window or the caret position cannot be determined, these variables are blank. |
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ribbet.1
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| None wrote: | | Quote: | | A_CaretX and A_CaretY: The current X and Y coordinates of the caret (text insertion point). The coordinates are relative to the active window unless CoordMode is used to make them relative to the entire screen. If there is no active window or the caret position cannot be determined, these variables are blank. |
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Any suggestions for applications that don't work with A_CaretX and Y, such as Adobe Acrobat? Reports the same position no matter what. |
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SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| ribbet.1 wrote: | | Any suggestions for applications that don't work with A_CaretX and Y, such as Adobe Acrobat? Reports the same position no matter what. |
Many have tried, all have failed  So for now the answer seems no although it SHOULD be possible as there are applications that can see the caret position in such programs like firefox, thunderbird and acrobat.
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ribbet.1
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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| hugov wrote: | | ribbet.1 wrote: | | Any suggestions for applications that don't work with A_CaretX and Y, such as Adobe Acrobat? Reports the same position no matter what. |
Many have tried, all have failed So for now the answer seems no although it SHOULD be possible as there are applications that can see the caret position in such programs like firefox, thunderbird and acrobat. |
I can't find a "crying" emoticon, HugoV. Thanks for the reply though!
Acrobat is such a piece of crippleware. They make me feel like it's 1995 all over again! |
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ribbet.1
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:53 am Post subject: |
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| OK, little workaround, should work in my case, maybe not for others. In this instance, I search for a certain bit of text. When the text is found, it's highlighted. I can then use PixelSearch to find the first instance of the highlight color, which will be the coords of the top left corner of said highlighted text block. Which is enough for me to work with in this instance. |
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jerryo
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Anybody got any further on this little issue, please?
*looks for praying smiley* |
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