AutoHotkey: Clipboard handling

For clipboard handling with AutoHotkey I recommend the following resource called WinClip .

WinClip references

WinClip is mentioned in this AutoHotkey forum entry: 74670-class-winclip-direct-clipboard-manipulations

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You can find its documentation here: http://www.apathysoftworks.com/ahk/index.html

The script seems unmaintained since 2012. Still it is a great utility.

Examples

Get clipboard content in HTML format

This is the best way I've found to extraxt HTML from the clipboard content.

It is as easy as:

sHtml := WinClip.GetHTML()

Paste in Plain Text

WinClip.Paste(clipboard)

Create Rich HotStrings

See separate post here.

Known issues

Copy to clipboard

I have tried to use the Copy method to get the current selection. Unfortunately it seems not to work. (I use Windows 10)

My wish method for getting the current selection would have been, if it were working as I am expecting:

GetSelection(type:="text"){

; Syntax:

;   sSelection:=GetSelection("text"*|"html")

; Default "text"

wc := new WinClip

wc.iCopy()

If (type = "text") {

    sSelection := wc.iGetText()

    MsgBox %sSelection%

    }

Else If (type ="html") {

  sSelection := wc.iGetHTML()

}

return sSelection

}

See my current "workaround" solution: (You can download it in GitHub here)

GetSelection(type:="text"){

; Syntax:

;   sSelection := GetSelection("text"*|"html")

; Default "text"

; Calls: WinClip.GetHTML

OldClipboard:= ClipboardAll                         ;Save existing clipboard.

Clipboard:=""

while(Clipboard){

  Sleep,10

}

Send,^c                                          ;Copy selected text to clipboard

ClipWait 1

If ErrorLevel {

  Clipboard:= OldClipboard 

  return

}

If (type = "text") {

  sSelection := clipboard

  ;sSelection := WinClip.GetText()

} Else If (type ="html") {

  sSelection := WinClip.GetHTML()

}

; Restore Clipboard

Clipboard := OldClipboard 

return sSelection

}