Hi Chip,
Since GW Object Model does do the clipboard, they could add that routine. A
simple addition.
I read his app using shared objects, but it only uses a script method not
anything outside of that. I did not notice any Python in his app.
I may in the future just have a python script in .exe portable format that
uses any of the requested objects, it will just have to be in it's own window,
probably minimized window.
Since I have written a Cuckoo Clock program like the GW version in Python I
did that to allow adjustment of the volume of the sounds. I have not finished
it yet, got sidetracked this last weekend with the clipboard files feature.
That feature comes in handy for both the file name and it's path. For both
are attached together when calling the app I posted below.
Yes, a nice feature to get file names and paths after copying them to the
clipboard and you don't have to worry about copying the file itself; a later
feature for actually copying only the file content onto the clipboard without
opening the file the long way, just from the clipboard itself.
I think these 2 apps or properties, or methods, could be added to the
Object Model clipboard and would be a real nice handy feature. After all they
did add the picture option, for blind users, does that make sense?
So, if you learn python, download it, the 2.5 version is the only one to
use for the compiler called pyinstall, but you could load 2.7 which has more
features in strings and such, including unicode, but, it depends on what you
want to know/learn.
So, I guess this thread is now done, the next posting will be the entire
python code for opening and closing the clipboard in Python and it actually is
a very short routine.
Yet below is all that is needed to add between the open and close routine,
after opening it...of course.
Bruce
P.S.
The files name in the parameter list is not needed.
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:32 PM
Subject: RE: Can We Call Win32 and shell?
Bruce,
Well, I think you know you can't get the object or routines which you want, via
.vbs. However, if you have implemented this in python and you want to run the
python app concurrently, then you could supply it from the python app using the
sharedObject mechanism of WE. Probably not worth it for something you can do
from vbs anyway (just slower), but for other things you may want then you might
keep this in mind.
Jamal I believe has setup some shared objects written in javascript to show
this being done, and the homer boo app written in vs.net boo to also show using
the shared object mechanism to get to resources you can't normally get via .vbs.
From: BX [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 5:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Can We Call Win32 and shell?
Hi Chip,
I know how to get files the normal way and someone , besides myself, wanted
to get the file list from the clipboard. I have written a version in Python and
could write it using studio, but just was asking about using .vbs to get the
win32 object which is needed.
The only way to get the file list from the clipboard is using shell and
that is actually the easy part of getting the file list, in fact very easy.
The only other problem is getting into the clipboard commands and that has
to be done by win32 commands and Windoweyes does not allow that, they only give
properties and 1 method, append
They could easily add isFiles and the object they use for the clipboard
itself, for they have to be using it for the few options they have, the only
thing missing is the object itself.
Now there are memory management calls and such, all under the win32
clipboard command for they use open() and all the other functions.
The way to get the file list is to call the shell command:
shell.DragDropFile for that is the only way to get the files...
So, the only thing I need is the actual clipboard object being used at the
window level.
Having this feature makes things a lot easier and fast and not requiring
another app if it were built into the WE object model. I added another
property, pasteFileNames in my code...
Bruce
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 4:20 PM
Subject: RE: Can We Call Win32 and shell?
It's not quite clear to me what you really need Bruce, but below is an example
of how to get the list of files for a given dir in VBScript:
set x=getfiles("c:\temp")
' X now holds a dictionary of file names, with the index being an integer
number starting at 1
Function getFiles(ForDir)
Dim fsObj
Dim folder
Dim file
Dim fileList
dim i
Set getFiles = Nothing
Set fileList = CreateObject("scripting.dictionary")
Set fsObj = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If fsObj.FolderExists(ForDir) Then
Set folder = fsObj.GetFolder(ForDir)
i=0
For Each file In folder.Files
i=i+1
fileList.Add i, file.name
Next
Set getFiles = fileList
End If
End Function
From: BX [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 9:32 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Can We Call Win32 and shell?
Can we call win32 and shell commands directly using an object create method
in vb?
I have developed a program to extract file names from the clip board and
you can display them as an array or iterate through the array list since the
call back method is an array...
So I need to have win32 and shell in order to get the clipboard handle then
get the DragQueryFile method from the shell because files are on the system and
have to be extracted from the shell.
So, I would like to know how to get that object for the shell and win32.
Could I get the clipboard object without using win32? Since the clipboard
command you have is only for text and someone a while back wanted to get file
names, so I can do that now if I have the way of getting the shell object from
the system without doing the other shell object; yet I may have answered my
question, but still want ideas.
Bruce
