storing and retrieving clipboards issue

[beeski]

I have been unsuccessfully trying to store an n number of clipboards that I would like to later retrieve in a target application.

Although a clipboard-viewing application is showing the clipboard contents (which is xml data in my case) is getting stored, when I send ^v to the application later on, nothing gets pasted.

Would you be able to suggest some workaround?

Btw. I tried exporting either version of the clipboard -- the one captured in-app via ctrl+c, and the one copied into my own variable in my ahk script -- via Free Clipboard Viewer; both versions of the clipboard output a file of identical size, but different CRC.)

Below are relevant excerpts from my code.

Thank you.

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Counter     := 1
EventsNumber := 10

While Counter <= EventsNumber

	{
		Send ^c
		MyClipboards%Counter% := Clipboardall		
		sendinput {Right} ; relevant to the target application
		Counter++
	}

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Counter     := 1
While Counter <= EventsNumber

	{
		NewClp := MyClipboards%Counter%
		Clipboard := NewClp
		sleep, 250 ; for debugging purposes
		Send ^v
		sleep, 250 ; for debugging purposes
		Counter++
	}

[jigga]

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Counter     := 1
While Counter <= EventsNumber

    {
        NewClp := MyClipboards%Counter%
        Clipboard := NewClp
        Clipwait
        sleep, 250 ; for debugging purposes
        Send ^v
        sleep, 250 ; for debugging purposes
        Counter++
    }

see if that works

[beeski]

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Counter     := 1
While Counter <= EventsNumber

    {
        NewClp := MyClipboards%Counter%
        Clipboard := NewClp
        Clipwait
        sleep, 250 ; for debugging purposes
        Send ^v
        sleep, 250 ; for debugging purposes
        Counter++
    }

see if that works

thank you. it hasn't, but not because of wrong code, i believe; i had to give up, as it seems the target application isn't giving out all the information about objects copied to the clipboard. xml data appears in the clipboard following edit>copy, but i figured there is more that isn't accessible (at least i don't know how to access it).

i ran some tests where i selected and copied to the clipboard (the traditional way using edit>copy) the same object in the application twice-- each time, the object bore different metadata (two instances of the same object, differently color-coded). i then created clipboard dump files using a clipboard-viewing application, which has produced two identical files (same crc, same size), although in the project, the two objects, like i said, were differently-coloured, so there has to be some extra layer of information that the program is not giving me, and that clearly does not 'survive' when (re)storing clipboards' contents in arrays.

this is my amateur conclusion, anyway; if someone could enlighten me on the topic, i'd appreciate that!