The Old New Thing

The managed way to retrieve text under the cursor (mouse pointer)

April 8, 2013 Apr 8, 2013 04/8/13

Raymond Chen

Today's Little Program is a managed version of the text-extraction program from several years ago. It turns out that it's pretty easy in managed code because the accessibility folks sat down and wrote a whole framework for you, known as UI Automation. (Some people are under the mistaken impression that UI Automation works only for ...