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owilsky · Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9

How do I show a menu at current text cursor position if e.g. the cursor is in an edit box in a form of the web browser?

I tried this, but doesn't work...

toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3841 Location: Bremen, Germany

Please try your code with %% around c on the ControlGetPos command, and with this "Menu menuname, Show, % X+50, % Y+50 "
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owilsky · Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9

Thanks, but I already tried this:

toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3841 Location: Bremen, Germany

I guess it is due to the web browser, since I remember that these commands only work on GUIs not on web pages. Maybe you could use a javascript to get the position, but I don't know that for sure.
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PhiLho · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject:

I didn't understood your question because you were talking about the cursor (following the mouse position) and not the caret (marking the current position in the text area).

toralf is right, I think that in most browsers, Web pages are just surfaces where the browser draws. In other words, they don't use classical Windows controls but emulate them, so window spies see only one big control, not the form controls.

Some tester programs (robots to test Web applications) can control such forms, but I think they actually use the browser API to do so at low level.