Clipboard copy, help needed

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1

Hello,

from the internal commands summery I find:

ADD: Use together with COPY; selected files are added to the clipboard contents and any existing files on clipboard are preserved

So the code would be (I guess):

Clipboard COPY ADD

If I create a button with this code, nothing happens, not even one file will be seen inside the clipboard.

I check the forum for help and I find a hint "SetClip" and read further down:

Note 2: Directory Opus 9 added a new, built-in Clipboard SET command which makes SetClip.exe largely obsolete.

Whatever I do, I cannot add anything to the clipboard with these commands, BUT:

@nofilenamequoting
Clipboard COPYNAMES

is working fine for me.

Anyone knows what I am doing wrong?

DirectoryOpus Vers 9.5.2, german
Windows XP, SP 2, german

2

The three things you've mentioned all do different things.

Do you want to add the files (as something you can paste into a file manager to copy the files), or the file names (as text you can paste into a text editor) or the file contents (as text) to the clipboard?

3

I would like to select different files, step by step and copy the file name into the clipboard - so that the already copied filenames are still there.

So I guess it this:
file names (as text you can paste into a text editor)

Thanks for you help !

4

You could create a button with the following MS-DOS command:

echo {filepath$} >> C:\Temp\FileList.txt

Select a file, click the button and the filename will be copied to a file called FileList.txt in the C:\Temp\ folder. Further clicks of the button will add to this text file.

Take a peek at this post which may help:

[url]Creating a log file]

5

This little program would do what you want. It monitors the clipboard and everything you copy is automatically added to it's window. You can then manipulate the list as desired.

6

SetClip.exe has a -a argument to make it append a string to the clipboard, so you could pass the filenames to that to get what you want as well.

7

thanks for all your hints !!