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Post subject: Filename argument

Posted: February 15th, 2008, 8:40 pm

Apologies for such elementary question:

In the windows explorer a single file is marked. How can a script access the filename (with or without complete path)?

Oskar

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ManaUser

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Posted: February 15th, 2008, 8:59 pm

Joined: May 24th, 2007, 3:45 am
Posts: 1121

One way is to send ^c (meaning copy) and then get the path from the clipboard. Would that work?

You can back up and later restore the previous content of the clipboard if you don't want to lose it.

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Guest

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Posted: February 15th, 2008, 10:25 pm

ManaUser wrote:

One way is to send ^c (meaning copy) and then get the path from the clipboard. Would that work?

I guess it should but I can't get it to work. Anything wrong with
----
#k::
sendinput {^c}
msgbox clipboard=%clipboard%
return
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The clipboard is unaffected by the macro.

Oskar

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engunneer

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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 12:27 am

Joined: August 30th, 2005, 8:43 pm
Posts: 8667
Location: Salem, MA

sending {^c} is not the same thing as sending ^c.

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Guest

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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 3:01 am

engunneer wrote:

sending {^c} is not the same thing as sending ^c.

Thanks. Couldn't find the difference in the help file. There still remains a timing problem (apparently):
#k::
sendinput ^c
msgbox clipboard=%clipboard%
msgbox clipboard=%clipboard%
return
The first msgbox reports the previous content. Only the second reports the actual result of the ^c copy-operation.

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ManaUser

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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 3:18 am

Joined: May 24th, 2007, 3:45 am
Posts: 1121

Sorry, usually you can get away without doing this if it's just text, but here's the more correct way:

Code:

#k::
Clipboard =
sendinput ^c
ClipWait
msgbox clipboard=%clipboard%
return

Or if you prefer, you're welcome to use my GetText function from this script.

Code:

#k::
GetText(FileName)
msgbox clipboard=%FileName%
return

GetText(ByRef MyText = "")
{
   SavedClip := ClipboardAll
   Clipboard =
   Send ^c
   ClipWait 0.1
   If ERRORLEVEL
   {
      Clipboard := SavedClip
      MyText =
      ERRORLEVEL := 1
      Return
   }
   MyText := Clipboard
   Clipboard := SavedClip
   Return MyText
}

That has the extra feature of preserving the previous clipboard contents.

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Guest

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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 4:25 am

Thanks for your help.. Problem solved. (On my notebook, though, ClipWait 0.1 was insufficient.)

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ManaUser

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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 5:10 am

Joined: May 24th, 2007, 3:45 am
Posts: 1121

Thanks for the feedback. I may need to make that longer then.

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dnquark

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Posted: July 5th, 2009, 2:15 pm

Joined: December 21st, 2007, 9:33 am
Posts: 10

As a datapoint, I had to set the delay value to 2... I don't understand why it's so slow on my machine. Interestingly enough, when this script is run over windows shortcuts (lnk files), the message box pops up almost instantly, but otherwise it has a perceptible delay.

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