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hi

I want to create a simple script to do the following, but i'm lost.

The Script

highlight & copy any text from a webpage (anything copied from the webpage is instanley copied to the clipboard. (autocopy addon, firefox)

paste the text into word

close and save the document to the specified directory

open a new document(ready for the next sequence)

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Here's a crude example that saves what you copy to a text file. There are probably better ways of doing this, but this is the easiest I could think of. There are Word functions in AutoIt, but I'm just trying to give one idea of how it could be done. This one will work 4 times that you copy text and then close out.

ShellExecute("www.autoitscript.com")
$i = 0
$currentClipboard = ClipGet()
Do
    $newClipboard = ClipGet()
    If $newClipboard <> $currentClipboard AND $newClipboard <> "" Then
        FileWrite(@ScriptDir & "\zfile" & $i & ".txt", $newClipboard)
        $currentClipboard = ClipGet()
        $i += 1
    EndIf
Until $i = 4
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Oh, holy ****! I was trying to manipulate the clipboard with some fancy function that was about six lines long (and failing)...

I do a search to see what's wrong, and find out the ENTIRE THING I WANT is done with "ClipPut($var)"....grrrr. Thanks for this thread, It cleaned up my code when the help file actually failed me.

Ryan

Recent AutoIT student and sudden fanatic

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Hello, there are several functions that may do the trick starting with the UDF for IE: _IEBodyReadText ( ByRef $o_object ).  That will read all the text between the body tags.  Then to place it into Word there is also a Word UDF.  I am not using the latest one but it does not seem to have a paste function so you could do this with the COM API to the object the UDF creates:

#include <Word.au3>
#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IE_Example ("basic") ; open AU3 web page example
$sText = _IEBodyReadText ($oIE) ; grab text from within body tags
ClipPut ( $sText) ; put the text to the clipboard
$myDoc=_WordCreate (@ScriptDir&"\mydoc.doc") ; create a word doc
$myDoc.ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.Panes(1).Selection.Paste ;paste the text into the word doc

For FF try the FF UDF and

#Include <FF.au3>
_FFReadText([$iFilter = 0])
Edited by Jfish

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terraterm,

Welcome to the AutoIt forum. :)

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M23

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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