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[Larry]

Does anyone know if it would be possible for a Network Wide Clipboard to be created with AutoHotkey?

For instance, lets say that you have 5 home computers.
Would it be possible to capture a clip on Computer#1,
and have the clip written to a clipboard file on each of
the 5 computers. Then, from each of the computers,
have the ability to paste that clip where ever it might
be needed.

Seems like it might be possible.....

Larry

[Chris]

I think you could do something like this via SetTimer and ClipboardAll. SetTimer would monitor the clipboard for changes on all systems. Whenever it changes, it could write the clipboard to a file using:

FileAppend, ClipboardAll, M:\SavedClipboard.bin
(where M can be a drive letter mapped on all five systems)

The timer would also check the file for changes made to it by the scripts running on the other systems. If the file changes, the clipboard could be loaded from the file.

This would require some careful design to avoid a deadlock where two PCs both try to write the file at the same time. There would probably be other complications too.