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[Serenity]

This script emulates the copy selected text to clipboard behaviour common to Linux. An optional paste with middle mouse button is included in the script. Unfortunately certain types of edit controls do not return the selected text with ControlGet. Feel free to tweak this - the mouse move detection routine isn't perfect.

[Laszlo]

Nice idea, Serenity!

Very few controls tell if they have selected texts. Many more react to Ctrl-C, copying (any) selection to the clipboard directly. Here is another version of your script using Ctrl-C:

[Serenity]

Thanks Laszlo. Your version works much better with Ctrl+C, and I didn't know you could do expressions like this:

[Chris]

[Laszlo]

This GetClipboardData error is strange. I have not seen it in my Win2k laptop. (Everyone: please try to reproduce it!) Serenity, have you tried increasing the ClipWait time? Maybe your PC is slow and the clipboard was still busy when AHK wanted to check it.

[Chris]

It's a very unexpected error because at that stage, the clipboard is already opened and fully owned by the script. I've never heard of GetClipboardData() failing under these conditions, especially since it's called with CF_TEXT (plain text) or CF_HDROP (list of copied files), which are very mainstream.

However, I have seen GetClipboardData() fail for ClipboardAll, and for this reason ClipboardAll ignores the error and simply tries to get as much data as it can.

[Laszlo]

...just thinkin...
Maybe the clipboard still changes after ClipWait saw data there, and accessing it causes errors. You could try

[Tekl]

Hi,

I can reproduce the Error with the following Hotkey:

[Chris]

Thanks for the script; it produces the same error for me.

The next update will contain the following change:
Fixed the Clipboard variable to avoid producing an error when a set of zero files was copied onto the clipboard. [thanks Serenity & Tekl]

[MrNomer]

I'm a newbie here but thought I'd add a couple cents...

couldn't the expression

if (x-x0 > 5 or x-x0 < -5 or y-y0 > 5 or y-y0 < -5)

be reduced to
if sqr((x-x0)^2+(y-y0)^2) > 5

and eliminate several logical OR's?

Sorry ... so new .. I'm not even sure if AHK has a square root function. LOL

Thanks to all for sharing code. Looking forward to learning this.

[Laszlo]

Assuming you defined your own square root function, and replace ^ with ** (the power operator in AHK) it should work. (But it does not, because negative base is not allowed, and so the result is wrong.) In any case, your condition is different. The original one allows the mouse to move in a little square without the selection copied to the clipboard, you specify a circle. But it doesn't really matter.

If you care about fast execution, function calls, multiplications are usually slower than a series of comparisons. Especially, with short circuits (not calculating further when the overall result becomes determined from a few conditions). Much depend on the compiler, though. Stupid compilation of conditionals might flush the processor pipeline unnecessarily, causing wait states.

[utch]

[JazzSinger]

Utch: great script. But when I select text by double-clicking, it doesn't work the same way as when I select by click-and-drag. Any way to fix that?

[Laszlo]

[airjrdn]

I took a couple of scripts and pieced them together that seems to handle the double click. Here's the code: