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Re: Clipboard use
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Re: Clipboard use


  • Subject: Re: Clipboard use
  • From: John Stewart <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:17:30 -0400

On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 04:47 PM, email@hidden wrote:

I need to take the value that is returned when a user chooses a folder via
a prompt and copy it to the clipboard. I've tried doing it this way:
set dpath to choose folder with prompt "locate Data Folder"
copy dpath to clipboard

However I get an error saying "can't set clipboard to alias". I've tried
adding an AS STRING to the code to return the value as a string instead of
as an alias or folder to no avail.
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from the Standard Additions osax or in early AppleScript versions - Jon's Commands osax -

set the clipboard to: Place data on an applications clipboard. Use inside a tell block and activate the application first (defined in: StandardAdditions.osax)
set the clipboard to anything -- the data to place on the clipboard


So use something like this -

set the clipboard to (choose folder with prompt "Pick a folder")

John
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