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[Iwanttolearneverything]

Okay, how would I go about copying text information, and assign them to specific names that will never change (thus needed as part of the script) , and then SendInput this information into other windows at a later time in (my) script? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry if this is the wrong forum

[Laszlo]

Read the AHK help for HotKey and HotString. I have a master script, which I run at startup. It includes dozens of HotString definitions with my addresses, phone numbers, job info. When I need them, in any application, I just type , e.g. ph1 for my first phone number, st1 for my street address, etc.

[scottmattes]

Laszlo,
I have tried twice to add a preview of the contents of the named clipboard and while I can add the edit to show what is going to be put into the named clipboard (for copy and append) I haven't had success in showing what will be pasted (especially switching between named clipboards).

Is this even possible?

Thank you for this very useful script!
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My small, but growing, collection of scripts.

[Laszlo]

Showing the text content of any named (private) clipboard is easy. Non-text information, like formatted texts, tables, graphics, pictures… are difficult, because the receiving application is supposed to render the image. You can pick and show a few standard clipboard formats, like formatted text - and show it in a richtext control, or HTML Internet Explorer Control. They require that your GUI contains the corresponding control. Transfering there a private clipboard has to be done via the Windows clipboard (sending Ctrl-V).

[scottmattes]

I hadn't even gotten to the part about non-text clipboard contents! but thanks for reminding me.

I set up gComboBoxChange on the ComboBox add line like so

ComboBoxChange:
guicontrolget, name,, name

hexname := string2hex(name)

Clip =

Loop % %HexName%_0
{ ; load clipboard from array
Clip := %HexName%_%A_Index%
}

msgbox, %Clip% ; this shows blank on paste
msgbox % %Clip% ; this shows a big AHK warning about name being too long
return

the intent is that on clipboard name change a text item would be set with the contents (granted, I'll have to code for non-text contents).

[Laszlo]

The problem is that the contents of private clipboards are binary, and so when you assign them to Clip, they get truncated at the first NUL. Only the variable Clipboard is treated in a special way: when it is assigned to an AHK variable, the non-text content is stripped. Your code needs to be:

[scottmattes]

Thank you, that is helpful. I was hoping to not have to modify the clipboard each time, but if that is what is needed...

where in the help can I read about ", Clip .= ClipBoard" syntax? In particular the "," between 2 commands and what the ".=" means?
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Scott Mattes

My small, but growing, collection of scripts.

[Laszlo]

In the Help, under Expressions, Assign you find that “.=” means to append the right hand side to the content of the variable on the left hand side.

The MsgBox, showing the clipboard content always when a new name is selected, is distractive. You could show its beginning in a ToolTip instead, for a few seconds, or in the TrayTip (which automatically disappears after several seconds).

Another alternative is to have an extra button for the user to manually request showing the content of the current named private clipboard. Something like this:

[superdsp]

[airjrdn]

I'm trying to consolidate functionality from multiple mini-apps into a single ahk app. So far, I've been able to combine three into one, but one of the outstanding ToDo's is to replace CLCL.

I'm pretty sure I vastly under utilize CLCL. I really only store text within it, but I do group the text into sections (javascript, sql, php, etc.). I could probably get by without that and use this, if this allowed me to retain my saved clips to a a file though.

Any plans on adding the ability to save/load stored clips?

[Laszlo]

I did not plan saving/loading clips, because the purpose of the script was to help organize brainstorming documents. You write everything said in the meeting, but when you produce a document at the end, you want to categorize ideas. So you just move pieces around, maybe in new documents, and save the results. This use does not need saving, but it is not hard: include a few new buttons, like Save, Load, Show. Show is a bit more involved: you need to choose the application, which can handle the particular clipboard format. WordPad is often sufficient, but not always. A Rich-Text control is faster and smaller, but neither of them can show drawings...

[scottmattes]

In case anyone else likes the Show function Laszlo added (just for me, thank you), I have a mod that makes it just a tad better.

replace this

[scottmattes]

BTW, I have started modifying Deluxe Clipboard to use permanent private clipboards.

It isn't very fancy, there is text and a button added to Laszlo's Show MsgBox to facilitate adding text to the permanent file and each time a Capslock combo is done the list gets reloaded. The file has the name as entered by the user, an "=" and then the text (with *crlf* replacing each real CRLF).

I still have to write something to better process the permanent file (deletes have to be done with a text editor for now).
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My small, but growing, collection of scripts.

[trenton_xavier]

Is there a way to "clear" the memory used for this?

I re-use the same names, after a script reload, and sometimes when I go to paste it will be the old data. Btw, it's a picture.

[Laszlo]

If you reload the script, the old content of the private clipboards cannot persist. Maybe, you have the picture in the clipboard? Also, some programs (MS Word) is known to mess with the clipboard, and behave differently than others. Do you see this data retention in Word?