Pasting string with carriage return and tans in it

[IceGothic]

Hi guys,

Basically, I want EG to paste a predefined block of text when I press a certain shortcut. This text might include carriage return, new line and tabs.

Example of textblock :

"
This is Line 1,
[.....]This is a tabbed line 2,
This is the last line.
"

* in this block text, there is 2 "carriage return"+"new line" characters and one tab character.

I tried using the "copy to clipboard" action followed with a "Emulate keystrokes(CTRL-V)" but I can't make the special chars work. I also tryed the "emulate keystrokes" only passing all chars to it; it's working but is really slow.

Any of you is a python expert or have any idea?
Thanx

[jinxdone]

Try the following python script.

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eg.WinApi.Clipboard.SetClipboardText("""This is
    a piece
of text""")
eg.SendKeys(None, "{Shift+Insert}", True)

-jinxdone

[IceGothic]

Awesomeeeeee!! Thanx )

you woudn't happen to know how to get before and reset after the old clipboard content (text, files,image,data etc)?

[jinxdone]

Try this one.. the difference here is that it only works with the CF_UNICODETEXT data on the clipboard and doesn't empty your clipboard in between of other types of data. (like binary) So, if you paste into programs that do not want the CF_UNICODETEXT from the clipboard you will get whatever stuff you happen to have on the clipboard instead of the string set here.

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text = u"""This is
    a piece
of text"""

from eg.WinApi.Dynamic import (
    cast,
    sizeof,
    create_unicode_buffer,
    c_char_p,
    c_wchar_p,
    OpenClipboard,
    EmptyClipboard,
    CloseClipboard,
    GetClipboardData,
    SetClipboardData,
    GlobalLock,
    GlobalUnlock,
    GlobalAlloc,
    CF_TEXT,
    CF_UNICODETEXT,
    GHND,
)
import ctypes
memcpy = ctypes.cdll.msvcrt.memcpy

if eg.WinApi.Clipboard.SafeOpenClipboard():
    oldtext = u''
    # Try fetching the old clipboard content
    hClipMem = GetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT)
    if hClipMem:
        oldtext = cast(GlobalLock(hClipMem), c_wchar_p).value
        GlobalUnlock(hClipMem)

    # Copy the new string to the clipboard
    charBuffer = create_unicode_buffer(text)
    charBufferSize = sizeof(charBuffer)
    hGlobalMem = GlobalAlloc(GHND, charBufferSize)
    lpGlobalMem = GlobalLock(hGlobalMem)
    memcpy(lpGlobalMem, charBuffer, charBufferSize)
    GlobalUnlock(hGlobalMem)
    try:
        SetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT, hGlobalMem)
    finally:
        CloseClipboard()

    # Paste it
    eg.SendKeys(None, "{Shift+Insert}", True)

    # Put the old content back
    charBuffer = create_unicode_buffer(oldtext)
    charBufferSize = sizeof(charBuffer)
    hGlobalMem = GlobalAlloc(GHND, charBufferSize)
    lpGlobalMem = GlobalLock(hGlobalMem)
    memcpy(lpGlobalMem, charBuffer, charBufferSize)
    GlobalUnlock(hGlobalMem)
    if eg.WinApi.Clipboard.SafeOpenClipboard():
        try:
            SetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT, hGlobalMem)
        finally:
            CloseClipboard()

It would be better to improve the eg.WinApi.Clipboard to facilitate this sort of working with the clipboard, but that would be a bigger job and require some planning. I hope this will do for now. (even though its an ugly hack)

-jinxdone