Evaluate each line of an open document without clipboard

[vbmark]

I have a large text document that must be edited while open.

I want to evaluate each line to see if it starts with a collection of certain words.

If the line does start with one of the words then I will do some key sends.

Is there a way to do this without copying every line, one at a time, to the clipboard and then getting the clipboard in order to do the evaluation? Is there a more direct way?

[Blackholyman]

Depends on the program the document is open in...

[vbmark]

Can you please explain technically why that is the case? For example Notepad++ vs Word. How would the script differ?

[kon]

Well for one you could use COM in MSWord.

[vbmark]

That's pretty cool. In this case it will be Visual Studio but I don't know if it provides COM access or not.

[nimda]

I think you'll be better off with FileRead / file objects.

[vbmark]

That doesn't work on an open file that needs to have keystrokes sent to it.

[tank]

yea its not gonna be visible to ahk. without a fileread tactic its going to be pretty hard. I tried some basics with MSAA just to see if it would work
have a look at this thread
looks like it can work
http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/7 ... ntry495073

[Blackholyman]

Just try'd with UIA and that works for me.

heres a example: ScreenReader by nepter http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/9 ... -anywhere/

Hope it helps

[vbmark]

OK, I think I'll just use the clipboard.

Thanks.