SetClipboardHTML() for V1.1 & V2

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SetClipboardHTML() for V1.1 & V2

Post by SKAN » 06 Sep 2020, 05:15

SetClipboardHTML( HtmlBody[, HtmlHead, AltText] )
Sets CF_HTML data in clipboard which can then be pasted with Ctrl+v
Sample: SetClipboardHTML("<div><b>Welcome to AutoHotkey</b></div>",, "Welcome to AutoHotkey")

Parameters:
 
  • HtmlBody : Body of the HTML, without <body></body> tags. Paste will work only in html capable input.
  • HtmlHead : Optional Head content of the HTML, without <head></head> tags.
    You may use this for limited CSS styling with supported editors like MS Word.
    For browser input (Gmail/YahooMail etc.), you may use limited inline styling in Body.
  • AltText : Optional alternative (unicode) text for html incapable editors like Notepad, PSPad etc.
 
Example: These following snippets are a modified version of intro example given in docs under HotStrings V1 / Hotstrings V2.
 

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#Requires AutoHotkey v1.1.33+
#SingleInstance  Force
Hotstring(":*X:]d", "DatePaste")
Return

DatePaste:
  FormatTime, DTH,, '<i>'dddd'</i>', '<b>'dd-MMM-yyyy'</b>' h:mm tt
  FormatTime, DTT,, dddd, dd-MMM-yyyy h:mm tt
  SetClipboardHTML(DTH,, DTT)
  SendInput ^v
Return
 
 

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#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
#SingleInstance Force
Hotstring(":*X:]d", DatePaste)

DatePaste(*)
{
    Local  DTH  :=  FormatTime(,"'<i>'dddd'</i>', '<b>'dd-MMM-yyyy'</b>' h:mm tt")
        ,  DTT  :=  FormatTime(,"dddd, dd-MMM-yyyy h:mm tt")
    SetClipboardHTML(DTH,, DTT)
    SendInput("^v")
}
 
 
The function
 

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SetClipboardHTML(HtmlBody, HtmlHead := "", AltText := "")                ;  SetClipboardHTML() v0.72 by SKAN for ahk,ah2 on D393/D66T
{                                                                        ;                                 @ autohotkey.com/r?t=80706
    Static CF_UNICODETEXT  :=  13
         , CF_HTML         :=  DllCall("User32\RegisterClipboardFormat", "str","HTML Format")
         , Fix             :=  SubStr(A_AhkVersion, 1, 1) = 2 ? [,,1] : [,1]  ;           StrReplace() parameter fix for AHK V2 vs V1

    Local  pMem := 0,    Res1  := 1,    Bytes := 0,    LF  := "`n"
        ,  hMem := 0,    Res2  := 1,    Html  := ""

    If Not DllCall("User32\OpenClipboard", "ptr",A_ScriptHwnd)
           Return 0
    Else   DllCall("User32\EmptyClipboard")

    If  HtmlBody != ""
    {
        Html    :=  "Version:0.9" LF "StartHTML:000000000" LF "EndHTML:000000000" LF "StartFragment:000000000"
                 .  LF "EndFragment:000000000" LF "<!DOCTYPE>" LF "<html>" LF "<head>" LF HtmlHead LF "</head>" LF "<body>"
                 .  LF "<!--StartFragment -->" HtmlBody "<!--EndFragment -->" LF "</body>" LF "</html>"

     ,  Html    :=  StrReplace(Html, "StartHTML:000000000",     Format("StartHTML:{:09}",     InStr(Html, "<html>"))          , Fix*)
     ,  Html    :=  StrReplace(Html, "EndHTML:000000000",       Format("EndHTML:{:09}",       InStr(Html, "</html>"))         , Fix*)
     ,  Html    :=  StrReplace(Html, "StartFragment:000000000", Format("StartFragment:{:09}", InStr(Html, "<!--StartFrag"))   , Fix*)
     ,  Html    :=  StrReplace(Html, "EndFragment:000000000",   Format("EndFragment:{:09}",   InStr(Html, "<!--EndFragme"),,0), Fix*)

     ,  Bytes   :=  StrPut(Html, "utf-8")
     ,  hMem    :=  DllCall("Kernel32\GlobalAlloc", "int",0x42, "ptr",Bytes+4, "ptr")
     ,  pMem    :=  DllCall("Kernel32\GlobalLock", "ptr",hMem, "ptr")
     ,              StrPut(Html, pMem, Bytes, "utf-8")
     ,              DllCall("Kernel32\GlobalUnlock", "ptr",hMem)
     ,  Res1    :=  DllCall("User32\SetClipboardData", "int",CF_HTML, "ptr",hMem)
    }

    If  AltText != ""
    {
        Bytes   :=  StrPut(AltText, "utf-16")
     ,  hMem    :=  DllCall("Kernel32\GlobalAlloc", "int",0x42, "ptr",(Bytes*2)+8, "ptr")
     ,  pMem    :=  DllCall("Kernel32\GlobalLock", "ptr",hMem, "ptr")
     ,              StrPut(AltText, pMem, Bytes, "utf-16")
     ,              DllCall("Kernel32\GlobalUnlock", "ptr",hMem)
     ,  Res2    :=  DllCall("User32\SetClipboardData", "int",CF_UNICODETEXT, "ptr",hMem)
    }

    DllCall("User32\CloseClipboard")

Return !! (Res1 And Res2)
}
My Scripts and Functions: V1  V2

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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by Joe Glines » 19 Jan 2021, 14:52

Thanks @SKAN! As someone who loves HotStrings, It's great to be able to have HTML format as a replacement! I'm going to mention it on today's AutoHotkey webinar as the script highlight! :)
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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by Joe Glines » 02 Feb 2021, 21:57

@SKAN
Hi SKAN,
I really loved your script but I wanted to be able to save/restore the clipboard so I wrapped it with another function.
Unfortunately it isn't always setting the html content correctly. I tried playing with the sleeps on my end but am not sure what's causing the issue. At 6:15 I show an example of it "breaking".

If you have any thoughts, I'd love to hear them... Again, thank you for your code!

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::ta.::
HTMLHotstring("<a href='https://the-automator.com'>the-<span style='color:red'>Automator</span></a>",HTMLHead,"the-Automator.com",1)
return

HTMLHotstring(HTMLBody,HTMLHead,AltText,RestoreClipboard:=1){
	if (RestoreClipboard)
		ClipBackup:=ClipboardAll ;backup clipboard
	Clipboard:="" ;Blank the clipboard so can use ClipWait later
	SetClipboardHTML(HTMLBody,HTMLHead,AltText) ;Call function
	ClipWait,2 ;Wait up to 2 seconds for clipboard to have something.
	if ErrorLevel 	{ ;If nothing gets put onto clipboard
		MsgBox, Nothing was put in the clipboard`n`nRestoring original content & exiting ;explain something went wrong
		Clipboard:=ClipBackup ;restore clipboard to original content		
		return False
	}
	SendInput, ^v ;Send Control+V / Paste 
	if (RestoreClipboard){
		sleep, 100 ;needed to make sure pasted happens before restoring clipboard
		Clipboard:=ClipBackup ;restore clipboard to original content	
	}
	Return True
}

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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by rommmcek » 06 Feb 2021, 20:39

This works for me:

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DatePaste:
  ClipBackup:= ClipboardAll
  FormatTime, DTH,, '<div><i>'dddd'</i>', '<b>'dd-MMM-yyyy'</b>' h:mm tt'</div>'
  FormatTime, DTT,, dddd, dd-MMM-yyyy h:mm tt
  SetClipboardHTML(DTH,, DTT)
  SendInput ^v
  Sleep, 150
  while DllCall("user32\GetOpenClipboardWindow", "Ptr")
     Sleep, 150
  Clipboard:= ClipBackUp
Return
[Edit]: Putting "Wait for Clipboard" before Paste too, increases reliability further more.
[Edit2]: Not needed anymore due to fix by SKAN (thanks to report by tdalon).
Last edited by rommmcek on 10 Feb 2021, 17:15, edited 2 times in total.

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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by Joe Glines » 08 Feb 2021, 11:25

@rommmcekThanks! I'll play with it some more later this week.
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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by tdalon » 09 Feb 2021, 01:32

This is amazing. Thanks @skan.
Also the hint by @rommmcek looks like I will get rid of these timing issue.
I was using WinClip https tdalon.blogspot.com /2020/02/autohotkey-clipboard-handling.html (Broken Link for safety) in the past but it has some issues.
Could you also provide a GetClipboardHTML function?

You can find my Clip library wrapping these functions here https://github.com/tdalon/ahk/blob/master/Lib/Clip.ahk.

Simple example of Hotstring using it:

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::teamsme:: ; Teams Me Chat Link (rtf)
sText = Chat with me in Teams
sLink :=  "https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users="  
Clip_PasteHtml(sLink,sText,True)	
return
[Mod edit: [code][/code] tags added.]
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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by tdalon » 10 Feb 2021, 14:24

@SKAN
If you run the function and immediately access the clipboard e.g. sClip := Clipboard
AutoHotkey will crash on Error: GlobalLock.
It seems the function does not complete with the clipboard being accessible. :(

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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by SKAN » 10 Feb 2021, 16:38

tdalon wrote:
10 Feb 2021, 14:24
@SKAN
If you run the function and immediately access the clipboard e.g. sClip := Clipboard
AutoHotkey will crash on Error: GlobalLock.
It seems the function does not complete with the clipboard being accessible. :(
Thanks for reporting this. 👍

Allocated (Global) memory for CF_UNICODETEXT shouldn't be freed by the function and let the OS do it. Ref: MSDN
While this doesn't seem to be a problem with AHK-ANSI, Unicode version crashes.
:arrow: This has been fixed in v0.67

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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by rommmcek » 10 Feb 2021, 17:12

That's why I proposed "Wait for Clipboard" before paste too, now redundant! Thanks to both of you!

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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by valuex » 13 Feb 2021, 08:01

@SKAN
It seems not going well with base64 image. Here is my case.
Any comment will be appreciated.

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   html=
    (       
        <img src="data:image/jpeg;charset=utf-8;base64, %base64string%">
        <p> description about the image</p>           
    )
    SetClipboardHTML( html )    
while the base64string is as following,
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAkACQAAD/2wBDAAgGBgcGBQgHBwcJCQgKDBQNDAsLDBkS
Ew8UHRofHh0aHBwgJC4nICIsIxwcKDcpLDAxNDQ0Hyc5PTgyPC4zNDL/2wBDAQkJ
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AUUUUAFFFFABRRRQAUUUUAf/2Q==

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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by SKAN » 13 Feb 2021, 09:31

@valuex

The following works fine for me:
 

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#NoEnv
#Warn
#SingleInstance, Force

base64string := "
( Join
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAkACQAAD/2wBDAAgGBgcGBQgHBwcJCQgKDBQNDAsLDBkS
Ew8UHRofHh0aHBwgJC4nICIsIxwcKDcpLDAxNDQ0Hyc5PTgyPC4zNDL/2wBDAQkJ
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MjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjL/wAARCAAvAIYDASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAHwAAAQUBAQEBAQEA
AAAAAAAAAAECAwQFBgcICQoL/8QAtRAAAgEDAwIEAwUFBAQAAAF9AQIDAAQRBRIh
MUEGE1FhByJxFDKBkaEII0KxwRVS0fAkM2JyggkKFhcYGRolJicoKSo0NTY3ODk6
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AUUUUAFFFFABRRRQAUUUUAf/2Q==
)"

html := "
( LTrim
  <img src=""data:image/jpeg;charset=utf-8;base64," . base64string . """>
  <p> description about the image</p>
)"

SetClipboardHTML( html )

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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by william_ahk » 25 Jan 2023, 07:24

Hey @SKAN, when I use this function it always pastes an extra space in the end, and I see in your examples you were countering this problem by wrapping the HTML content in a <div>. However when I manually copy HTML content from the browser there's no div wrapping the content. Then I compared the two, and noticed that there's no line break between the start and end fragment comments in the browser's copy. I removed these line breaks in the function and confirmed that they were causing the extra space.

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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by oldbrother » 01 Mar 2023, 08:06

This function was generated by ChatGPT. It looks very simple and works for me. Who's version is better?

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html := "<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>"
ChatGPT_SetHtmlToClipboard(html)


ChatGPT_SetHtmlToClipboard(html) {
    htmlFile := ComObjCreate("HTMLfile")
    htmlFile.write(html)
    bodyRange := htmlFile.body.createTextRange()
    bodyRange.select()
    bodyRange.execCommand("Copy")
    bodyRange := ""
    htmlFile := ""
}

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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by william_ahk » 02 Mar 2023, 07:18

oldbrother wrote:
01 Mar 2023, 08:06
This function was generated by ChatGPT. It looks very simple and works for me. Who's version is better?

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html := "<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>"
ChatGPT_SetHtmlToClipboard(html)


ChatGPT_SetHtmlToClipboard(html) {
    htmlFile := ComObjCreate("HTMLfile")
    htmlFile.write(html)
    bodyRange := htmlFile.body.createTextRange()
    bodyRange.select()
    bodyRange.execCommand("Copy")
    bodyRange := ""
    htmlFile := ""
}
This whole function was generated by ChatGPT, unchanged? Very impressive.

SKAN's version is certainly much faster. But the IE version sets the plain text in addition, which would have to be parsed with an HTML parser otherwise if one wants to set both HTML and plain text automatically. So, this might actually be a better implementation! :trollface:

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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by oldbrother » 02 Mar 2023, 21:58

william_ahk wrote:
02 Mar 2023, 07:18
This whole function was generated by ChatGPT, unchanged? Very impressive.
Yes, I only removed the comments. Thank you!

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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by dox » 10 Mar 2023, 14:39

A question please, if knowledgeable users wouldn't mind:

If I have:

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String := "||Title||: This is some text ..."
How would I go about using SetClipboardHTML() or alternative to just set the ||Title|| substring to HTML bold?

Using Skan's function, I could paste the entire clipboard string to HTML-aware windows such as in a manner below:

SetClipboardHTML("<span style='font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic'>This is some bold italic text in 12pt Verdana</span>",,"")

I wish to know how I might modify the function to selectively style a portion of the text in the clipboard with HTML tags.

Many thanks in advance!

dox
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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by dox » 10 Mar 2023, 17:08

Now of course, I could update HTMLBody to something like:

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SetClipboardHTML("<span style='font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic'>Title in bold italic 10pt Verdana:</span> <span style='font-family:Georgia; color:#000000; font-size:12pt'>Text in regular 12pt Georgia</span>",,"")
In MS Word, it would display:

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However, what I would like is a way to parse any arbitrary string/text in the clipboard through the likes of RegExReplace() or StrReplace(), so as to be able to selectively apply HTML formatting tags to "needles", if possible. Thanks.

dox
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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by dox » 10 Mar 2023, 19:17

Quick follow-up: I was mistaken in thinking that something needs to be done inside SKAN's function. It turns out that it is quite easy, after reading in the file, to wrap necessary HTML tags around the elements I want to format with RegExReplace. Then StrReplace the "`r`n" with "<br />".

Good to go. Tested both in MS Word and on my HTML-aware web app I have to use for work.

BTW, the ChatGPT routine sure is short and sweet. But doesn't quite work right ... 98% there. But not all the way on the web app I have to use.

Thanks SKAN for introducing your function!

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oldbrother
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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by oldbrother » 17 Mar 2023, 16:32

I used ChatGPT revised the function. It is supposed to be more reliable.

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ChatGPT_SetHtmlToClipboard(html) {
	htmlDoc := ComObjCreate("Htmlfile")
	htmlDoc.write(html)
	body := htmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("body")[0]
	range := htmlDoc.body.createTextRange()
	range.moveToElementText(body)
	range.select()
	range.execCommand("Copy")
	htmlDoc := ""
	Range := ""
	Body := ""
}

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JoeSchmoe
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Re: SetClipboardHTML()

Post by JoeSchmoe » 20 Mar 2023, 10:21

Hi @SKAN, this looks great. Would you consider making an AHK 2 version? I'm looking for a fast and robust function that does what this does.

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