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Copying, Cutting and Pasting

Keywords: cut and paste using Sendkey 

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Question:

Is there a function in WinBatch for copying other than using send keys?

Answer:

If you want to capture a screen of text to the clipboard and are using a Windows program, like Notepad, the following might work.

	SendKey("{HOME}")   ; get cursor to upper left of file

	SendKey("+{END}")   ; Highlight from cursor to end of file

	SendKey("^c")	    ; Copy highlighted stuff to clipboard.

Question:

How is cutting and pasting done?

Answer:

To tell an app to cut/copy/paste you can use:

	^x	^c	^v

i.e., Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.

In some older applications, Ctrl-V doesn't work for pasting, so you might try using Shift-Insert for pasting. That was the old keyboard shortcut for pasting, and some applications still use it.

WinBatch also has the Clipput(), Clipappend(), and ClipGet() functions, but this is probably not what you want.

Some high-end applications, like Word and Excel, can put stuff in the clipboard, via DDE Commands. WinBatch can retrieve these with the ClipGet() function.

Question:

Can WinBatch do a snapshot and return text instead of graphics?

Answer:

No. The Snapshot function takes a graphic picture of the screen only, and thus cannot return text characters from a window with this function.

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Article ID:   W12986

Filename:   Copying Cutting and Pasting.txt

File Created: 1999:04:15:16:50:58

Last Updated: 1999:04:15:16:50:58