Is it possible to access Clipboard from a script? [SOLVED]

[Mauricio Moya (Arquesoft)]

I need to access to the data in the clipboard in a Jscript in the model. Is this possible?

[Aaron B]

No way that I know of to access the clipboard from scripting languages. I think you'd need to write your program in a more full featured language such as C#.

[Geert Bellekens]

There are actually a number of ways (or workarounds) to get access to the clipboard.

Here's a few of them: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19696308/how-can-i-use-clipboard-in-vbscript

Geert

[Mauricio Moya (Arquesoft)]

The solution:
Create a VBscript with this:

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sub ClipBoard(input)
'@description: A quick way to set and get your clipboard.
'@author: Jeremy England (SimplyCoded)
  If IsNull(input) Then
    ClipBoard = CreateObject("HTMLFile").parentWindow.clipboardData.getData("Text")
    If IsNull(ClipBoard) Then ClipBoard = ""
  Else
    CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run _
      "mshta.exe javascript:eval(""document.parentWindow.clipboardData.setData('text','" _
      & Replace(Replace(Replace(input, "'", "\\u0027"), """","\\u0022"),Chr(13),"\\r\\n") & "');window.close()"")", _
      0,True
  End If
End sub
Then create your own vbscript including the previous one and use the ClipBoard function to put the text in the clipboard.