Copy selected text from an external application

[macrow]

Hi All,

I was wondering if it was possible in vb.net to select text from an
external application such as IE, then press a hotkey which would copy
the contents to clipboard?

I have no problems with setting up system wide hotkeys and with
copying selected text if it was not an external application but could
not find any info on how I might do the above.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

- J

 

[kru]

Hi All,

I was wondering if it was possible in vb.net to select text from an
external application such as IE, then press a hotkey which would copy
the contents to clipboard?

I have no problems with setting up system wide hotkeys and with
copying selected text if it was not an external application but could
not find any info on how I might do the above.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

- J

I'm also curious how this might be possible, trying to copy a selected
line of text from a browser to copy into clipboard so I can search
through the string for particular text. Problem is trying to get the
selected text into clipboard.