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PasteBoard: Help Me Improve Its Reliability

 
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instantrunoff



Joined: 13 Jan 2008
Posts: 62
PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:58 pm    Post subject: PasteBoard: Help Me Improve Its Reliability Reply with quote
I made a script for automatically copying and pasting into a specific document (the "pasteboard"). The way it works is that in the document you want to paste into, you press Ctrl-Ins, and then whenever you select text anywhere and press Ins, that content will be appended to the pasteboard.

However, I had to increase the key delay to get it to work at all reliably on Vista (using SendInput didn't work well at all). If you have further suggestions, I'd love to know them.

Code:

SendMode Input
!Insert::Insert
   ^Insert::
   WinGet, pasteboard, ID, A
   ControlGetFocus, edit, A
   WinGetTitle, pasteboardname, ahk_id %pasteboard%
   TrayTip, PasteBoard, %pasteboardname%
   Sleep 2000
   Traytip
   return
   Insert:: ; copy and paste into rich file
   If (pasteboard <> "")
   {
   gosub backupclip
   ControlSend, %edit%, ^{end}, ahk_id %pasteboard%
   ControlSend, %edit%, ^v, ahk_id %pasteboard%
   ControlSend, %edit%, {enter 2}, ahk_id %pasteboard%
   gosub restoreclip
   }
   else
   {
   Traytip, PasteBoard, No PasteBoard Selected
   Sleep 2000
   Traytip
   }
   return
   
   
   
   backupclip:
      ClipSaved := ClipboardAll   ; Save the entire clipboard to a variable of your choice.
      clipboard = ; empty clipboard
         Send ^c
         ClipWait, 1, 1
         IfEqual, ErrorLevel, 0
         return
         else
         {
         gosub restoreclip
         exit
         }
   
   restoreclip:
       Clipboard := ClipSaved   ; Restore the original clipboard. Note the use of Clipboard (not ClipboardAll).
       ClipSaved =   ; Free the memory in case the clipboard was very large.
       return


Update May 4, 2008: SendMode Input does work in Vista, but AHK has to run in XP SP2 compatibility mode.

Last edited by instantrunoff on Sun May 04, 2008 3:50 pm; edited 1 time in total
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widow
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
nice idea
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
widow wrote:
nice idea
but doesnt work in XP as it seems.
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instantrunoff



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
widow wrote:
widow wrote:
nice idea
but doesnt work in XP as it seems.

What exactly doesn't work in XP?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
instantrunoff wrote:
widow wrote:
widow wrote:
nice idea
but doesnt work in XP as it seems.

What exactly doesn't work in XP?
Sry, it didnt work with notepad. Another texteditor worked ok tough.
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instantrunoff



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Posts: 62
PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
HP Smart Web Printing looks much better, so I've given up on Pasteboard for now.
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