Copying and Pasting

[Illuvator]

Hello again, brief question, i want to copy a number from a box on a form to another box on another form (both windows are open) how do i do this? because this does not seem to work First it must generate a number

ControlClick("Form1", "", 1005, "$primary")

Then must copy that number from the box onto the other form:

ControlClick("Form1","",1004, "$primary", 2)
Send("^{C}")

Then it must paste this onto (say a notepad document)

WinActivate("Untitled - Notepad")
Send("^{V}")

Is that how to go about it? or is there another way? because it seems to not want to select the data in the first form - is that because it is clicking too fast to register?

Illuvator

[pecloe]

ControlClick("Form1", "", 1005, "$primary")

does this highlight the text ? if so then

Send("^{INS}")

will copy it to the clipboard

[jefhal]

Assuming you have two documents open in Notepad: Doc1 and Doc2 and that Doc1 has text in it and Doc2 does not, this will copy the text from one instance to the other:

WinActivate("Doc1.txt - Notepad","")
ControlSend ( "Doc1.txt - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "^a" )
$var = ControlCommand ( "Doc1.txt - Notepad", "","Edit1" , "GetSelected", "option" )
MsgBox(1,"$var",$var)
WinActivate("Doc2.txt - Notepad","")
ControlSend("Doc2.txt - Notepad","","Edit1",$var)

[Illuvator]

ControlClick("Form1", "", 1005, "$primary")

does this highlight the text ? if so then

Send("^{INS}")

will copy it to the clipboard

thanks for that, and in answer to your question, no it doesnt highlight the text - any ideas how to do that?

[pecloe]

ok so much for the easy way. what kind of document or form is the first one?

edit

Edited February 25, 2006 by pecloe

[Illuvator]

I think thats where the problem lies, the number is taken from a random number generating .exe file which my friend wrote (may get on to him to ask him actually) and i wanted to copy the numbers generated to notepad to put them into a file (random number generator for selecting random test sites for a piece of coursework) and hence into my work. No problems, thanks for your help, ill get onto him and see if i can take this further

[pecloe]

sorry i couldn't help.

[Illuvator]

dont worry about it, thanks for your time

[ChrisL]

Can you get the text with ControlGetText() from form 1 and ControlSetText() to form 2

[theguy0000]

ClipPut(ControlGetText("Form1","",1004))

[Illuvator]

Thanks very much to you all (@ theguy) that was what i was looking for, thanks very much . and @ChrisL in the script

ControlSetText("Form2", "", 1050, "What do i put in here???"

Basically, i have (thanks to theguy got the input on the clipboard, how do i then paste that (not using Send("{V}") using the control set text command?

Thanks again to all of you for your assistance,

Illuvator

[ChrisL]

$data = ClipGet()

ControlSetText("Form2", "", 1050, $data)

I still think you would be better not using the clipboard and using ControlGetText(), clipboards can easily get replaced with the wrong data.

ControlGetText() would store the value in a Variable and you would put it into the second app in the way above but without the clipput() and clipget()

So $data = ControlGetText("Form1","",1004)

ControlSetText("Form2", "", 1050, $data)

Edited February 25, 2006 by ChrisL

[Illuvator]

Thanks very much again. One last question and then i'll cease to trouble you lol. Is there any way I can copy a selection of the digits in a random number (say the first four, or first five) from a string which is say 14 characters long? Is that possible?

Thanks very much, you're all extremely hepful

[greenmachine]

StringLeft ($String, 4) ; leftmost 4

Or, StringRight ($String, 4) ; rightmost 4

Or, StringMid ($String, $StartNum, $Count) ; any number of chars from any initial place. Default $Count is the rest of the string.