In our older version of Crystal, there is no way to block comment out code. So me and co-worker wrote short program that would read what is on the clipboard, comment it out and SendKeys(“^v”) it back to the active window.
Everything on it works, except one thing, there seems to be no good way to automate the getting of the text. SendKeys(“^c”) and Sendkeys(“^{Insert}”) does not work. Nor does Getting the foreground window (GetForgroundWindow) and reading the first imbedded Window, which appears to be the Edit field. If I sendmessage(h1, WM_Copy,0,sTemp) I get nothing. I also get nothing from a straight up GetText or GetWindowText. I have slightly more luck using rich text box messages but what I get is gibberish.
To Sum it up, Using Send keys for the Copy command does not work, and I cannot seem to use the API Messaging system to get the text. What else can we do?
This thing is made in VB6.
