ClipGet() - failure and @error question

[iCode]

if ClipGet() cannot access the clipboard, it sets @error to 3 OR 4

is there any difference between 3 and 4?

i'm working with Bluegriffon - a mozilla based WYSIWYG html editor - and having some problems where ClipGet() fails with @error = 3 when copying images from the visual editor.

the core code is straight forward

Send("^c")

Sleep(500)

$clipData = ClipGet()

Ctrl+C/V works fine, so i'm wondering if this issue may be specific to Bluegriffon, or if there is something else i'm not seeing

[water]

Clipget only works for text. The help file says: "Retrieves text from the clipboard."

To retrieve images etc. have a look at the ClipBoard UDF that comes with AutoIt.

[Melba23]

iCode,

You say you are trying to copy images - as far as I know ClipGet only works with text. You need to use the Clipboard.au3 UDF to deal with other formats.

I have not worked much with that UDF - but perhaps this code might help.

M23

[iCode]

hi Melba23

i had been using the clipboard UDF and maybe i do need to go back to it

i just started to write that ClipGet works with more than just text, but i think you're right i have been incorrectly assuming otherwise all this time because it sets @error to 2 if the clipboard doesn't contain text. when i send ^v, i was assuming i was pasting what ClipGet 'got', but obviously not

wow - when it states "Retrieves text from the clipboard.", i guess i should not ignore that

[water]

wow - when it states "Retrieves text from the clipboard.", i guess i should not ignore that

Right

[guinness]

"Retrieves text from the clipboard.", i guess i should not ignore that

I hope you missed this and didn't just dismiss it as being incorrect.

[iCode]

long story and a dumb mistake on my part ... basically i was using ClipGet to grab the clipboard contents and Ctrl+V to paste - since i copied an image, and pasted an image, i assumed the data pasted was from ClipGet. the fact that ClipGet sets error = 2 if the clipboard is not text caused me to think it works for non-text AND sets error = 2 so you know it wasn't text