How Does VBScript Interact with the Clipboard ?

[Gadrin]

Anyone have any examples on how I can place text on the clipboard ?

Or does it require a 3rd party gimmick ?


Thx!

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[dilettante]

VBScript does not exist on its own. What script host are you asking about? WSH? IE? MSHTA? Something else?

Some of these expose clipboard support to script via global namespace objects.

 

[Gadrin]

WSH would be fine.

I'm searching through my script56.chm and not finding anything.


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[dilettante]

WSH doesn't provide clipboard support. You'd need some component or else you must move to another script host (IE, MSHTA, etc.).

 

[dilettante]

There is the giant hack of firing up an IE instance and automating it though:

How Can I Grab a URL From the Clipboard and Then Open That Web Site in a Browser?

I think that rewriting this as an MSHTA script (.HTA) is more graceful and less inside-out and resource intensive, but then that's just me.

 

[Gadrin]

Yuck.

Well I'll have to make sure clip.exe is around someplace.

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