Paste from clipboard when clipboard changes mid script

[melvynm@gmail.com]

In the middle of my script the clipboard contents change (I'm opening a
site which immediately copies a variable to the clipboard). How do I
use this variable in my script?

If I declare:
var p = window.clipboar dData.getData(' text');
at the beginning, then:
p = clipboard at start of script
and does not take note of changes.

[Ivo]

Re: Paste from clipboard when clipboard changes mid script

<melvynm@gmail. com> wrote[color=blue]
> In the middle of my script the clipboard contents change (I'm opening a
> site which immediately copies a variable to the clipboard).[/color]

That is not going to be a popular site then. The clipboard is generally seen
as a very private thing, and the fact that jscript can tinker with it so
easily is not OK.
[color=blue]
> How do I use this variable in my script?
>
> If I declare:
> var p = window.clipboar dData.getData(' text');
> at the beginning, then:
> p = clipboard at start of script
> and does not take note of changes.[/color]

Not sure what you mean. The variable is a variable like any other. You may
even assume it is of type string. Try:

alert( 'Look what I found on your clipboard:\n\n' + p );

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Ivo

[melvynm@gmail.com]

Re: Paste from clipboard when clipboard changes mid script

Actually, it's a very popular site. The site is www.tinyurl.com. Users
of this free service go there to convert very long URLs into more
memorable/emailable ones by receiving pointers from them. When the
pointer is created it is automatically copied to the clipboard as that
is the only logical thing a user is going to want to do with it.
Also, those of us using clipboard managers aren't too bothered if a new
entry is made as it doesn't wipe out the existing one.
To return to the topic I'm trying to create a script which opens
tinyurl.com and then takes the new clipboard item as the message body
of an email. The problem is that the only way I know to use the
clipboard contents is to use:
var p = window.clipboar dData.getData(' text');
then use 'p' as my clipboard contents. When I do so I only get the
clipboard data that was there at the start of the script and not that
which gets written halfway through.

[Ivo]

Re: Paste from clipboard when clipboard changes mid script

<melvynm@gmail. com> wrote[color=blue]
> Actually, it's a very popular site. The site is www.tinyurl.com. Users
> of this free service go there to convert very long URLs into more
> memorable/emailable ones by receiving pointers from them. When the
> pointer is created it is automatically copied to the clipboard as that
> is the only logical thing a user is going to want to do with it.
> Also, those of us using clipboard managers aren't too bothered if a new
> entry is made as it doesn't wipe out the existing one.[/color]

Don't know what a clipboard manager is, sounds disturbing.
[color=blue]
> To return to the topic I'm trying to create a script which opens
> tinyurl.com and then takes the new clipboard item as the message body
> of an email.
> The problem is that the only way I know to use the
> clipboard contents is to use:
> var p = window.clipboar dData.getData(' text');
> then use 'p' as my clipboard contents. When I do so I only get the
> clipboard data that was there at the start of the script and not that
> which gets written halfway through.[/color]

So I understand your script is not going to come from the same domain>
scripts like reading the clipboad periodically (using setInterval) so you
can find out when it's changed by tinyurl.com, are going to suffer from
cross-domain security issues.
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Ivo

[Randy Webb]

Re: Paste from clipboard when clipboard changes mid script

melvynm@gmail.c om wrote:
[color=blue]
> Actually, it's a very popular site. The site is www.tinyurl.com. Users
> of this free service go there to convert very long URLs into more
> memorable/emailable ones by receiving pointers from them. When the
> pointer is created it is automatically copied to the clipboard as that
> is the only logical thing a user is going to want to do with it.[/color]

Correction:

It is only copied to the clipboard if the user is using IE4+ on Windows.

To quote the tinyURL site:

<quote>
Note: For IE 4+ on Windows, the TinyURL is automatically copied to your
clipboard and is ready for pasting (using Ctrl-V).
</quote>

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Randy
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