Syntax For Sending Values To Clipboard?

[Diana (Cda)]

I'm doing very well with the simple stuff I need AutoIt to do. But I've been stuck on a script for the last couple of days. I've searched through the messages but it's too much for me. I don't understand all the terms yet that people use so I can't figure out what to use of the examples for my own situation. My needs are pretty basic. I have a script that works perfectly, it returns today's date in a yyyy.mm.dd.ddd format (i.e., today shows up as 2004.08.14.Sat). I need to go one step further for other situations, sending the date in that format but to the clipboard.

I found ClipPut and ClipGet, but they seem to deal with actual text as all I got when I substituted Send with ClipPut was the syntax from my script and no date <lol>. Oh, well, d'uh, I know, but I thought it would work.

Here is the working script between asterisks below:

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;

; AutoIt v3.0

;

Sleep(500)

#include <date.au3>

$thisday = _DateDayOfWeek( @WDAY, 1 )

Send(@YEAR & '.' & @MON & '.' & @MDAY & '.' & $thisday)

Exit

; finished

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It works perfectly. Now I just need to modify this to send the information to the clipboard instead of to text output.

Any help appreciated. Thanks!

[trids]

How are you using ClipPut()?

.. ie: Can you post what are you trying that doesn't work?

[Coffee]

change Send to clipPut()

ClipPut(@YEAR & '.'  & @MON & '.'  & @MDAY & '.' & $thisday)

rest is fine, might want #include before sleep, but prolly just a matter of style.

[trids]

Hmmm .. that works for me ..

When I run it, and press CTRL-V, out pops a pretty date from my clipboard

[Diana (Cda)]

change Send to clipPut()

ClipPut(@YEAR & '.'  & @MON & '.'  & @MDAY & '.' & $thisday)

rest is fine, might want #include before sleep, but prolly just a matter of style.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That did the trick! Thanks for this. Such a simple change, eh, to get it to work properly <sigh> <g>. I did try one of the "clip" commands, but didn't get the right output so I obviously didn't script it right.

One last question, if I may. I've run into this time and time again. This clipboard script is for when I'm naming files. When one uses this date format, _all_ files will always sort in proper chronological order. But it's a longish addition to a filename. I've been using shorter names for the day of week, which btw, I do need to add so can't leave that out. Is there a way to further modify the above script so that the days return a 2-character instead of 3-character result? i.e., Mon should be Mn, Tues = Tu, Weds = Wd, Thurs = Th, Fri = Fr, Sat = Sa and Sun = Sn?

Thanks so much!

[CyberSlug]

; the one-line solution

$thisday = StringMid("Sn,Mn,Tu,Wd,Th,Fr,Sa", StringInStr("SunMonTueWedThuFriSat", _DateDayOfWeek(@WDAY,1) ), 2)

The better solution is to create a function.... You could even futher modify the function and get rid of the parameters if they never change.

$thisday = _short_DateDayOfWeek( @WDAY, 1 )
;....
Exit
Func _short_DateOfWeek($iDayNum, $Format)
   Local $d = _DateDayOfWeek( $iDayNum, $iFormat )
   Local $pos = StringInStr("SunMonTueWedThuFriSat", $day)
   Return StringMid($"SnMnTuWdThFrSa", $pos, 2)
EndFunc

[Diana (Cda)]

; the one-line solution

$thisday = StringMid("Sn,Mn,Tu,Wd,Th,Fr,Sa", StringInStr("SunMonTueWedThuFriSat", _DateDayOfWeek(@WDAY,1) ), 2)

The better solution is to create a function....

The first line above worked just fine. Is it necessary to do the function thing? Just curious. If I get results with one method, wondering why I should choose another. I'll never need to modify the dates again. This is pretty standard now.

Thanks.

[CyberSlug]

The first line above worked just fine.  Is it necessary to do the function thing?  Just curious.  If I get results with one method, wondering why I should choose another.  I'll never need to modify the dates again.  This is pretty standard now.

Thanks.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

So when you end up having to edit the code in six months, you'll look at the line and wonder "why the heck did I do that?" But maybe you're a lot better at commenting your code

P.S. Can you figure out why the one-line StringMid method works? There are many ways to solve a problem, and functions make programs easier to write/understand/debug... There might even be a better solution than the two I presented!

Edited August 25, 2004 by CyberSlug