Copy to Clipboard

Hi,

I'm trying to send string to clipboard using following function but its not working for me. I have searched for other functions but finding the same function of MP's everywhere.

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?80784-Need-Lisp-code-for-pick-the-text-in-drawing-and-save-in-clipboard

http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=21764.msg263322#msg263322

Kindly help me out of this.

Regards,

Satish.

(defun _SetClipBoardText (text / htmlfile result)
 ;;  Caller's sole responsibility is to pass a
 ;;  text string. Anything else? Pie in face.
 ;;  Attribution: Reformatted version of
 ;;  post by XShrimp at theswamp.org.
 ;;  See http://tinyurl.com/2ngf4r.

 (setq	result
 (vlax-invoke
   (vlax-get
     (vlax-get
       (setq htmlfile (vlax-create-object "htmlfile"))
       'ParentWindow
     )
     'ClipBoardData
   )
   'SetData
   "Text"
   text
 )
 )
 (vlax-release-object htmlfile)
 text
)

Have you perhaps uninstalled MS Internet Explorer?

No. Its there still I'm facing this problem.

do you have (vl-load-com) installed/loaded ?

@satishrajdev:

If Steve's comment does not help:

How do you determine that it does not work, is there an error message?

do you have (vl-load-com) installed/loaded ?

Yes. I have done that in my main code

@satishrajdev:

If Steve's comment does not help:

How do you determine that it does not work, is there an error message?

It just returns "" and if I check from cntl+V it doesn't matches.

From the return value I conclude that you are using the function like this?:

(_SETCLIPBOARDTEXT "")

Do you want to clear all clipboard data?:

(defun _ClearClipBoard ( / htmlfile)
 (vlax-invoke
   (vlax-get
     (vlax-get
       (setq htmlfile (vlax-create-object "htmlfile"))
       'ParentWindow
     )
     'ClipBoardData
   )
   'ClearData
 )
 (vlax-release-object htmlfile)
 T
)

Hi,

 

I'm trying to send string to clipboard using following function but its not working for me. I have searched for other functions but finding the same function of MP's everywhere.

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?80784-Need-Lisp-code-for-pick-the-text-in-drawing-and-save-in-clipboard

http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=21764.msg263322#msg263322

 

Kindly help me out of this.

 

Regards,

Satish.

 

Tested with Windows 7 64bit

Command: (_SETCLIPBOARDTEXT "Cool!")
"Cool!"

It pasted fine in a document.

What version of Windows are you using?

ttechnik's post: https://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=21764.msg541448#msg541448

he code is correct. In W2k....

But in W8 not work.

I'm guessing that the command y'all are trying to use is not valid in older Acad versions !!

It won't work in AC2008 for example.

what version of AC is the OP using ???

if setdata failed, would getdata failed too?

catch exception?

(defun cdata (/ cb html)
 (if (vl-catch-all-error-p
(setq cb (vl-catch-all-apply
	   'vlax-invoke
	   (list (
		  '((doc)
		    (foreach x '(parentwindow clipboarddata)
		      (if (not (vl-catch-all-error-p (setq doc (vl-catch-all-apply 'vlax-get (list doc x)))))
			doc
			) 
		      ) 
		    ) 
		   (setq html (vlax-create-object "htmlfile"))
		   )
		 'getdata
		 "text"
		 ) 
	   ) 
      ) 
) 
   ""
   cb
   ) 
 ) 

running in vbscript, see any error?

copy this code in notepad then save as "cp.vbs"

This vbs source but no longer exists

Set objHTML = CreateObject("htmlfile")
ClipboardText = objHTML.ParentWindow.ClipboardData.GetData("text")
MsgBox ClipboardText

example saved in D directory

locate & double click the saved "cp.vbs" file to run

or you cand invoke using lisp

(command "shell" "cscript D:\\cp.vbs")
;or
(command "shell" "explorer \"D:\\cp.vbs\"")

Try searching msdn documentations many good resources

Often programs will put several versions of copied data on the clipboard. Only changing the text on the clipboard will *not* remove the other data. This may be the root of the OP's confusion.

So a more reliable version of _SETCLIPBOARDTEXT would clear all data first (see my previous post).

From the return value I conclude that you are using the function like this?:

(_SETCLIPBOARDTEXT "")

You are right, If I do this it returns string

After that when I do ctrl+V I don't get "Sat123" text and that's my main concern.

_$ (_SETCLIPBOARDTEXT "Sat123")
"Sat123"

Tested with Windows 7 64bit

Command: (_SETCLIPBOARDTEXT "Cool!")
"Cool!"

It pasted fine in a document.

When I do ctrl+V after the expression I don't get "Cool!"

What version of Windows are you using?

 

ttechnik's post: https://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=21764.msg541448#msg541448

he code is correct. In W2k....

But in W8 not work.

I'm Using Windows 7 64bit.

I'm guessing that the command y'all are trying to use is not valid in older Acad versions !!

It won't work in AC2008 for example.

what version of AC is the OP using ???

I'm aware about that, But I'm using AutoCAD 2013. and We have AutoCAD 2014 to 2016 as well. I tried in all version but no luck.

To check what I have suggested in my previous post use the _GetClipBoardText function instead of Crl+V to read the text from the clipboard.