Clipboard utility to interface with AU3

[trids]

Here's a cool little utility (cb.exe) to route output from a commandline app straight to the clipboard .. which can then be interrogated from within AU3 (thereby avoiding the need to bounce the info through a file)

;BOUNCING RESULTS THROUGH A FILE
    $sExeListName = "c:\exelist.txt"
    RunWait(@comspec & " /c dir *.EXE /s/b>" & $sExeListName,"",@SW_HIDE)
    $sExeList = FileRead($sExeListName, FileGetSize($sExeListName))
    FileDelete($sExeListName)


;CLEVERLY USING CB.EXE INSTEAD
    RunWait(@comspec & " /c dir *.EXE /s/b|cb.exe","",@SW_HIDE)
    $sExeList = ClipGet()

Have fun

[SlimShady]

Nice. Very nice.

[kalayaan]

this'll come in handy.

[bobheart]

How would you write the ClipGet to a txt file ?

[Guest rathore]

How would you write the ClipGet  to a txt file ?

to output to text file:

dir c:\windows > c:\dirlist.txt

to append:

dir c:\windows >> c:\dirlist.txt

[Chris_1013]

What does this do that DirectTo.exe doesn't?

[trids]

What does this do that DirectTo.exe doesn't?

Dunno till I see DirectTo.exe .. What / where is DirectTo.exe? Even Google doesn't appear to have heard of it. Care to share a link?

[Chris_1013]

Ummm, best I can do you is a cut-n-paste of the e-mail Larry sent to the Yahoo Group a while back:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AutoItList/f...IL/DirectTo.zip

I have created a utility to direct %comspec% derived information into

the clipboard OR an Environment Variable that can be retrieved

through a subsequently run script... here is the readme text...

DirectTo.exe

-  A console app to use in a %comspec% session to pipe info

into the clipboard or into an "Environment Variable".

Usage

-  redirect to clipboard

....<stdout> | DirectTo.exe /c

-  redirect to Environment Variable and run App

....<stdout> | DirectTo.exe /e "VariableName" "File String To Run"

Examples

Dir | DirectTo.exe /c

Dir | DirectTo.exe /e OUTPUT "MyExe.exe MyArgument"

AutoIt Usage (Compiled AutoIt3)

If $CmdLine[0] = 1 Then

MsgBox(4096,"I got the Output",EnvGet("OUTPUT"))

Else

MsgBox(4096,"","Click OK to run DirectTo.exe test")

;WORD WRAP CRAPPED

RunWait(@COMSPEC & ' /c DIR | DirectTo.exe /e OUTPUT "' &

@ScriptFullPath & ' test"',"",@SW_HIDE)

EndIf

essentially the RunWait runs this... (on my PC)

cmd.exe /c DIR | DirectTo.exe /e OUTPUT "c:\DirectToTest.exe test"

which populates the environment var "OUTPUT" with the dir listing and

reruns my script so that I can play with EnvGet("OUTPUT")

Larry

[trids]

Thanks Chris - and thanks Larry Now we have two to choose from!