About Command.DivertClipboard()

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Is there currently any way (not to write to a temp file, then read it) to capture a program's output by forcing it to write to the clipboard (e.g. via clip) and using DivertClipboard() to redirect the result into a variable instead? I was hoping something like this would work, but it seems that DivertClipboard() only affects internal DO commands.

function GetValue(item) {
	var value = '';
		try {
			var cmdline = '"some_program.exe" "' + item + '" | clip';
			var cmd = DOpus.Create().Command();
			cmd.SetType('msdos');
			cmd.DivertClipboard('myvar');
			DOpus.Output(cmdline);
			cmd.AddLine('@runmode:hide');
			cmd.AddLine(cmdline);
			cmd.Run();
			if (DOpus.vars.Exists('myvar')) value = DOpus.vars.Get('myvar');
		}
		catch (err) {
			DOpus.Output('Unable to get value ' : + err.description);
		
		}

		return value;
	}

DOpus.Output(GetValue('D:\\test\\item.txt'));

Would it be possible for Command.DivertClipboard() to :

  • Make it work when running another program through DO that writes to the clipboard.

Or

  • Find a way to capture the stdout of another program to the clipboard using an internal DO command, allowing DivertClipboard() to take effect?
2

DivertClipboard only affects things that run inside of Opus.

But you can use one of these methods to capture another program's output: