From VLisp to Clipboard

Hi All,

How can i have VLisp code a put a number, that has been developed in the
code, onto the clipboard?

Thanks in advance.
Sal

 

COPYCLIP

 

uhhh...thanks, i think?

How do i put this in the code so that when the execution is complete, the
user can go to another app, like Excel, and paste the number into a cell?

Sal

 

Sal,
The only way I can think of (using plain lisp) requires a little user
interaction:

(setq var2copy "This is a test!")
(princ (strcat "\n" var2copy))
(getstring "\nPlease highlight the line above this one and press CTRL-C,
enter when done....")

This works, but is hardly automated.......

Second, you could download and use DOSLib from McNeel & Associates
www.mcneel.com

Third, you could search this group and find a post made by Daniel Lutzow
on March 11, 2003. He posted a link to a function he wrote to do just
this.

BTW, I found options 2 & 3 by doing a search in the
newsgroup.........*hint*

Jeff

 

Thanks for the *hint*

Sal

 

Hey Jeff,
I'm using the Edit | Find pull-down and searching for "copyclip" in the text
and that's not working. Then i searched for Daniel Lutzow in the from box
and that doesn't work. It seems to only search the posts that were
downloaded and these only go back to Jan'04.

How do i expand my search, or am i even searching wrong?

Sal

 

Hi Sal,
The problem there is that it appears you are using Outlook Express and
all headers for the newsgroup have not been downloaded. So you need to:
Either get all the headers, which would take a while if you are on
dial-up; use Google to search; or use the web interface for the groups
at http://discussion.autodesk.com/index.jspa

Personally, I got all of the headers for all the groups I'm interested
in. I think that the local type search using OE works the best.

HTH,
Jeff

 

How about using the doslib addon?
There are clipboard functions included!
They work great!