Get Line and Column numbers of a Notepad window? Topic is solved

[omareg94]

Hello,

How can I get Line and Column numbers of a Notepad window?

[Odlanir]

This works for me in Win10:

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StatusBarGetText, StatusText, 2, ahk_class Notepad
MsgBox, % StatusText

[omareg94]

Thanks this gets it successfully.

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2::
  WinGet, window_id, ID, A
  StatusBarGetText, StatusText, 2, ahk_id %window_id%
  RegExMatch(StatusText, "(?<=Ln )\d*", line_number)
  RegExMatch(StatusText, "(?<=Col )\d*", column_number)
  MsgBox, % "line number: " line_number "`ncolumn number: " column_number
return