Python: Get caret position

Question

I'm trying to get the caret position in Python. I tried using win32gui.GetCaretPos() but it always returns 0,0.

Do you have any ideas how to make it work?

Thanks Chris

Please post your code to make it a little bit more clear. – aIKid Nov 01 '13 at 10:04 — aIKid, Nov 01 '13 at 10:04

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 01 '13 at 10:43

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If the caret is in a window created by another thread, you need to call AttachThreadInput. Assuming you want the caret of the foreground window, you can get to it like this:

import win32gui
import win32process
import win32api

fg_win = win32gui.GetForegroundWindow()
fg_thread, fg_process = win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId(fg_win)
current_thread = win32api.GetCurrentThreadId()
win32process.AttachThreadInput(current_thread, fg_thread, True)
try:
    print win32gui.GetCaretPos()
finally:
    win32process.AttachThreadInput(current_thread, fg_thread, False) #detach

answered Nov 01 '13 at 10:43

Janne Karila

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works in all editor... except the one that I need :-) Thanks a lot anyway! – Chris Hki Nov 01 '13 at 13:52
What would be an efficient way of hooking into or polling for changes in active window constantly? – koral Dec 19 '19 at 09:57
@koral Better to start a new question especially that this one is closed. – Janne Karila Dec 19 '19 at 13:25

Python: Get caret position

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