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Env.getClipboard is not updated

Asked by Sleek

Hi,

I want to copy text that is inside a text area to clipboard.

I set the focus to textarea and then select the whole contents with CMD+a (I am on a Mac) and then copy the selection with CMD+c. When I call Env.getClipboard() I get the previous content of the Clipboard and not the new copied text. I do know that the clipboard was updated since if I paste (not using Sikuli) the new content is pasted.

I use Interactive Sikuli Jython Session to do all this, if I relaunch it and check Env.getClipboard it has the new content. So it seems like Env.getClipboard only gets updated at the start.

Is this a bug?

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

Yes, it is a bug.

But until now, I thought it would only stop to work as expected, when intermixing with paste() ???

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Sleek (sleekism) said : 		#2

Yes you are correct, I did use paste before doing a copy. Thank you for pointing me to the bug report. I will try to replace paste() with type().

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#3

Hope you know the restrictions of type() and they do not affect you ? faq 933

all the best.

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Sleek (sleekism) said : 		#4

Thankfully those restrictions do not apply to me :)

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Robert Feldt (robert-feldt) said : 		#5

A workaround on Mac that I sometimes found helpful is to use the following code to save (or append with fileFlag 'a') the Mac's clipboard contents to a file:

def save_mac_clipboard_to_file(filename, fileFlag = 'w'):
    if fileFlag == 'w':
        os.system('pbpaste > ' + filename)
    elif fileFlag == 'a':
        os.system('pbpaste >> ' + filename)

Especially if one was planning to save the contents to file anyway; with this code you need not go "through" Sikuli and get the associated Env.getClipboard problems. However, one can fully work around the bug by first using the above code to save to a (temporary) file and then read that files contents into a string in Sikuli...

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