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I am trying to figure out how I can make something like
"SendInput, %MyTestVariable% work.

Here is a small experiment that I wrote that seems to select everything in my application instead of printing out the variable contents:



The line "SendInput, %TestVariable%" is where everything seems to fall apart.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Alan Stancliff
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What is the output from this in your code:




Compared to what you were putting into the variable (or were supposed to be putting into the variable anyway)?

And I believe you could condense a step in that process that would also allow you to omit two other steps:

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I've simplified this a bit further to try to sharpen up my question.

If I run this code:

and then type the trigger word "testme," what I get is the phrase "this is a test." This is what I would expect.


But if I change line 2 so that the code looks like this:

and then cut my name "Alan" to the clipboard and type out my triggerword "testme," I get a tab and the letter À. I also get the same result when I type the word "Baloney."

So what's going on? What's getting assigned to "testvariable"? Is it the contents of the clipboard as I expected? If so, why aren't the contents being sent to the word processor when the line
runs?

Any help is appreciated.

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Alan Stancliff
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Use Clipboard instead of ClipboardAll

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I was wondering the exact same thing...

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Hey HotKeyIt and SinkFaze

Thanks for the help. It is much appreciated That seems to have solved the problem.

I am still puzzled about something though.

In the online documentation, it says this:


So I still wonder what is getting put into my test variable with ClipboardAll, given that what I'm cutting is a line of text in my word processor.

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Alan Stancliff
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I'm guessing this is the pertinent information a little further down the page:



SendInput would be attempting to display the contents of the variable the same as MsgBox would, hence the gibberish.

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Yup, SinkFaze,

That makes perfect sense.

Thanks for the feedback.

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Alan Stancliff
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Perhaps you've already figured out some of this, but I'd like to clarify a few things.

Since your original example doesn't "paste" before restoring the previous clipboard contents, you probably didn't need to assign to the clipboard at all:
Sometimes (especially for large text) assigning to the clipboard and "pasting" is faster than sending the individual keystrokes with SendInput:
The "WinWait" part of your script looks like something generated by AutoScriptWriter, but since it is missing a comma, WinActivate, ahk_class OpusApp is interpreted as the WinText parameter of IfWinNotActive rather than an actual command. If that part of the script is even necessary, it can be written more efficiently (and correctly):
Your word processor probably puts numerous formats on the clipboard - for instance: text, rich-text, HTML and the word processor's own format. ClipboardAll contains not only the data on the clipboard, but all required information, such as the format of each piece of data and the number of formats available.