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Re: Copy text to the clipboard


  • Subject: Re: Copy text to the clipboard
  • From: "Brett K." <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:55:46 -0500

On 2005-12-05 kai wrote:

    set the clipboard to ""
    repeat until (the clipboard) is ""
        delay 0.1
    end repeat
    keystroke "c" using command down
    repeat while (the clipboard) is ""
        delay 0.1
    end repeat
    set c to the clipboard
    set the clipboard to my quoted_text(c)
    repeat while (the clipboard) is c
        delay 0.1
    end repeat

Thank you for this tip! This fixed a script I've been having problems with for a long time.


Thanks again

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 >Re: Copy text to the clipboard (From: "John R." <email@hidden>)
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 >Re: Copy text to the clipboard (From: kai <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Copy text to the clipboard (From: kai <email@hidden>)

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