IEAction Copy

[Brendan]

Hi all,

Just having a problem getting (what seems to be) a simple little script to work. It is part of a bigger project but this is the part I'm stalling on.

#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IECreate('http://www.autoitscript.com')

_IEAction($oIE, "selectall")
_IEAction($oIE, "copy")

_IEQuit($oIE)

Everything seems to work, the copy line even returns a 1 for success when run. Yet the clipboard remains unchanged.

Is this code copying something else other than the entire contents of the webpage?

I have tried replacing it with send("^c") but this doesn't work in my main project, which I suspect is because I have it running largely in the background. (I would prefer not to have to use ^c in any case, but I could be persuaded otherwise if it really is in my best interests to do so.

So any advice?

[Jury]

Hmmm you code as is works a treat for me - copies all the text from http://www.autoitscript.com starting with:

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[DaleHohm]

Probably security related. IE9, Win 7, I get a popup asking if I want to allow the application to access the clipboard.

Dale

[Brendan]

Yeah i used to get that popup, but changed my ie settings to not prompt me anymore, though on reflection I should probably double check whether or not that is simply disabling it.

On that note is there a similar way of using these commands with a different browser? Pasting text from IE into Excel seems to take significantly longer than pasting it from Chrome.

EDIT: Ok now I feel silly, it turns out my way of getting rid of that prompt was to disable programmatic clipboard access. Though to me this would suggest I'm just disabling the webpages ability to access my clipboard. However I'll be the first to admit I don't know exactly how these things work. Outright enabling it fixed things right up though.

If anyone has an answer to my second question that would really be appreciated, would speed things up considerably.

Edited July 10, 2011 by Brendan

[somdcomputerguy]

  On 7/10/2011 at 12:11 PM, 'Brendan said:

On that note is there a similar way of using these commands with a different browser? Pasting text from IE into Excel seems to take significantly longer than pasting it from Chrome.

There is FF.au3, a Firefox UDF, in the Example Scripts forum. I don't know for sure if it handles 'select all' and 'copy', it probably does, but the syntax may be different.<br><br>edit: there is an Opera UDF there also.<br>

Edited July 10, 2011 by somdcomputerguy

[Brendan]

Was hoping for a Chrome one as I already use that, but I'll check those other ones out too.

Thanks for the reply!

[somdcomputerguy]

You bet. Good luck!