How to get cursor position?

[skyth540]

I am getting familiar with control functions, especially with sendmessage functions. How can I get the caret position (not screen x and y, just how many characters before it)

[Chunjee]

what app is the cursor in?

Answer will change depending

[skyth540]

just a generic pop up text box, similar to notepad. It's an Edit1 if that helps

what options are there?

[boiler]

This approach by neogna2 could work for just about anything since it uses Microsoft Active Accessibility info, which all apps are supposed to support.

[teadrinker]

I'd use the EM_GETSEL message.

[skyth540]

I'd use the EM_GETSEL message.

Do you know how to find the 0x???? code? Or what it would be? I can't get the send message to work without it for some reason

[teadrinker]

Do you know how to find the 0x???? code?

What code did you mean?

[guest3456]

Do you know how to find the 0x???? code?

google:

"em_getsel hex value"
"em_getsel constant definition"

[Lepes]

Do you know how to find the 0x???? code?

google:

"em_getsel hex value"
"em_getsel constant definition"

google for: "Constantine - Windows API Constants Explorer"