"copy text to clipboard" component?

Grasshopper
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Hi…,

I would like to have a “copy text to clipboard” component. I’ve tried a Python script, but I failed.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Michael

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Copy text? Rich text? Images? Byte arrays?

3

sorry to be imprecise. text is my desire. :wink:

4

try this:

import os 
data = "hello world"
os.system("echo '%s' | pbcopy" % data)

taken from here

5

Actually that didn’t work :slight_smile:

This works:

import subprocess

def copy2clip(txt):
    cmd='echo '+txt.strip()+'|clip'
    return subprocess.check_call(cmd, shell=True)
    
copy2clip('This is on my clipboard!')
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Hello, this is a super useful code. I have one problem. It seems that the code fails when trying to copy special characters (ex: “&”). Is there a way to resolve this?

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Hi @camcopete,

Thanks to this stack exchange answer: https://superuser.com/a/550057

here’s the solution, hope you don’t mind the extra quotes.

import subprocess

def copy2clip(txt):
    cmd='echo ' + '"' + txt.strip() + '"' + '|clip'
    return subprocess.check_call(cmd, shell=True)

copy2clip(x)

Maybe there is a whole new and better solution nowadays you should look for it on the internet.

UPDATE:

here’s the .net solution:


import clr

clr.AddReferenceByName("System.Windows.Forms")


from System.Windows.Forms import Clipboard

Clipboard.SetText(x)
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8

Nice script. However seems that I can’t copy data that it is longer than a single line. I do get copied into the clipboard only the last row of data from a list. I do need to be able to copy an entire list full of data. Maybe this script can be adapted to this purpose?

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https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/RhinoScriptSyntax/#utility-ClipboardText

Try this…

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Not working. I just get a popup and after that Rhino freezes entirely.

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Ok, made some progress:

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
txt = rs.ClipboardText(x)

with List access as x input and finaly I can copy an entire list into clipboard, but still not working as I do need.

How I can remove the [' and '] from the beginning and from the end of the text?

Also looks like I do have the entire list copied into clipboard as a sigle line. Where should be a Return to a new line I do get ', ' this characters.

My goal it is to copy an entire CSV formated data, that I can quickly paste into LibreOffice Calc.

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I created this python script to paste the system info in the clipboard.

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs

rs.Command('-SystemInfo C')

fromclipboard = rs.ClipboardText()

systeminfo = ('[details="System Info"]\n\n'
             +
             fromclipboard
             +
             '[/details]')

rs.ClipboardText(systeminfo)
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You smashed me. I am not programmer, so it is difficult for me to find a proper way to fix this.

If I strip down the SysInfo stuff from your code I am going back to the previous code:

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
a = rs.ClipboardText(x)

but still I can’t strip the [' and '] from beginning and the and and also I do need to replace the ', ' and replace-it with a NewLine character.

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I don’t consider myself a programmer either.

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Found a way to copy the panel content to clipboard, formatted for Excel data transfer.

Copy_to_Clipboard_for_Excel
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Copy_to_Clipboard_for_Excel.gh (5.3 KB)