This functionality is supported only if you are using the Classic Agent.
Suppose your application has an object that acts like a text box, but which is not implemented using your GUI’s standard text box object. The following example illustrates how you can derive a new class from AnyWin and define methods for the custom object. The example defines the ClearText, GetMultiText, SetMultiText, and GetMultiSelText methods.
// This new class defines methods that re-implement
// the methods of the TextField class so that they will
// work on custom text boxes. To be able to use these
// methods, you must change the class of object in the
// declarations from CustomWin to CustomTextField.
winclass CustomTextField : AnyWin
// This method clears the text box by moving the
// cursor to the start of field, selecting the text
// to the end of the file, and deleting the selected
// text
void ClearText ()
TypeKeys ("<Ctrl-Home>")
TypeKeys ("<Ctrl-Shift-End>")
TypeKeys ("<Backspace>")
// This method writes text to the text field.
// It first calls ClearText and then uses TypeKeys to
// input the text passed in.
void SetMultiText (STRING sText)
ClearText ()
TypeKeys (sText)
// This copies the currently selected text to the
// clipboard and returns the clipboard contents.
LIST OF STRING GetMultiSelText ()
Clipboard.SetText () // Clear the clipboard
TypeKeys ("<Ctrl-Insert>")
return (Clipboard.GetText ())
// This method highlights all of the text in the
// text field, copies the highlighted text to the
// clipboard, and returns the clipboard contents.
LIST OF STRING GetMultiText ()
Clipboard.SetText () // Clear the clipboard
TypeKeys ("<Ctrl-Home>")
TypeKeys ("<Ctrl-Shift-End>")
TypeKeys ("<Ctrl-Insert>")
TypeKeys ("<Left>")
return (Clipboard.GetText ())