Get the word under the mouse

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Hi
I am trying to get the word under the mouse when they click Control + Mouse Click on the word...
How can I read it... I have seen "WordWeb Dictionary" do this with a charm...
I tried capturing the image under mouse, and decode it with Tessnet OCR...
But it returns some other words... Please give me a clue...

Thanks

Posted 6-Oct-13 1:44am

Yesudasan Moses

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johannesnestler 6-Oct-13 8:58am

you have to explain better what you want to do. Get word from what? Any application? A special one (browser?), or your own application?

Yesudasan Moses 6-Oct-13 9:53am

I wanna grab phone numbers from outlook emails,,,
when people click over it,,,

BillWoodruff 6-Oct-13 9:58am

Have you opened the Outlook e-mails in a .NET WinForms application, and displayed them in a WinForms Control like a TextBox, or RichTextBox, or are you controlling Outlook from WinForms via Office Automation ? You are dealing with editable text: not a bitmap ?

Yesudasan Moses 6-Oct-13 10:12am

no no no... not that way....
I have developed an outlook addin, but i cant highlight and call numbers from the email... (using command line parameters) but i could call using context menu,,
So I decided to make a windows application that works in background, and trace the numbers at the mouse pointer and just display the form with call button near to that,,, thats my idea...

BillWoodruff 6-Oct-13 11:08am

It's still not clear to me what your application is doing. If your .NET application is running, how does it detect mouse activity in another application's (Outlook's) window: by means of a GlobalHook key-combination ? Are you interacting with Outlook via Office Automation in C# ?

BulletVictim 7-Oct-13 5:21am

Have you taken a look here? It looks like what you are looking for
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4665045/how-to-get-the-word-under-the-cursor-in-windows

Yesudasan Moses 7-Oct-13 5:50am

I will explain....
I have a SIP softphone,,, and the users used to call using the softphone,,,,
Now I have developed an outlook addin, that helps people to call from contacts (Works Well),,
But I cannot do anything for the numbers inside a mail,,,,
So, I just thought to work around this using another windows program that captures every word under the mouse and if its a number, it will display a call button there, so that he can easily call from there....

Yesudasan Moses 7-Oct-13 5:51am

@BulletVictim
I have tried it,,, But it returns only the titles Menu texts,, not from the content inside a window,,,,

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