how to retrieve total characters in a document used by the TSF manager in windows8?

Question

i am working on Text service framework in windows8 application. in this application document manager interface using method is (*ppRange)-GetText(ec,TF_TF_IGNOREEND,wStr,WCHAR_MAX, &fetched);this method return only compossing mode text only . how to retrieve total characters in a document(notepad)?

Answer 1

Notepad isn't TSF-aware, so you can't get the entire document. As it happens, however, edit controls (which Notepad uses) are supported by the transitory extension service, and you can use that instead. Just be sure to follow the rules.