ITextProvider Interface

Exposes methods and properties to support UI Automation client access to controls that contain text.

ITextProvider Members

DocumentRange Gets a text range that encloses the main text of a document.
GetSelection Retrieves a collection of disjoint text ranges associated with the current text selection or selections.
GetVisibleRanges Retrieves an array of disjoint text ranges from a text container where each text range begins with the first partially visible line through to the end of the last partially visible line.
RangeFromChild Retrieves a text range enclosing a child element such as an image, hyperlink, or other embedded object.
RangeFromPoint Returns the degenerate (empty) text range nearest to the specified screen coordinates.
SupportedTextSelection Gets a value that specifies whether a text provider supports selection and, if so, the type of selection supported.

Remarks

Implemented on a UI Automation provider that must support the TextPattern control pattern.

Interface Information

Inherits from IUnknown
Header and IDL files uiautomation.h, uiautomationcore.idl
Minimum operating systems Windows XP

See Also

UI Automation Providers Overview, ITextRangeProvider