Hi, I've been having problems with how to copy text items to the clipboard, so I turned to MSDN to find a solution... I found this piece of info about the EM_SETSEL.

MSDN - If the start is 0 and the end is –1, all the text in the edit control is selected. If the start is –1, any current selection is deselected.

;SNIP-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
invoke SendMessage, IDC_EDIT_OUTPUT, EM_SETSEL, 0, -1     ; select yung laman textbox
invoke SendDlgMessage, IDC_EDIT_OUTPUT, WM_COPY, 0, 0     ; copyahin yung selection
invoke SendMessage, IDC_EDIT_OUTPUT, EM_SETSEL, -1, 0     ; alisin selection
;SNIP-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

All the controls are valid, as far as I know. I also search for sources about this, but some of them are so complicated.. with things like globalalloc stuff that I still doesn't want to delve into.

Please, can anybody give a little hint?

Thanks in advance for your time.

Regards,
m0ds

Hi,

First of all, you need to be careful on what function you're using.

SendMessage will send window message to a window handle.
SendDlgMessage will send window message to a window handle (acting as dialog).

That's why you can't use EM_SETSEL is because neither of the window you're trying to "copy" data from is/are an EditBox.

To solve this, you need to "send" the message to the item itself, hence I recomment you to use the function that will send the message directly to the dialog item, which is the SendDlgItemMessage function. This should work:

invoke SendDlgItemMessage, hDialog, IDC_EDIT_OUTPUT, EM_SETSEL, 0, -1
invoke SendDlgItemMessage, hDialog, IDC_EDIT_OUTPUT, WM_COPY, 0, 0
invoke SendDlgItemMessage, hDialog, IDC_EDIT_OUTPUT, EM_SETSEL, -1, 0

where hDialog is the window handle of your DialogBox containing the EditBox having the id IDC_EDIT_OUTPUT.


Cheers,

-chris

I think there's something wrong with my code. I followed your advise... but it still does not copy... nor select... hmmmm... Are there codes that could mess up the operation of the "copy code"?

Thanks!

Regards,
m0ds

I fixed the source code you've sent me. I am posting it here for everyones' reference.

Cheers,

-chris

Thank you, I have learned more than I asked for.

Til next time! Chao!