Couple of questions: On 10/27/2018 07:17 AM, Musatov wrote: > I am wondering if Python could be used to write a program that allows: > > 1. Highlight some text > 2. Ctl+HOTKEY1 stores the string of text somewhere as COPIEDTEXT1
This text comes from where? Another application? > 3. Highlight another string of text > 4. Ctl+HOTKEY1 stores another string of text somewhere as COPIEDTEXT2 > > THEN > > 5. Ctl+HOTKEY2 pastes COPIEDTEXT1 Gets pasted where? > 6. Ctl+HOTKEY2 pastes COPIEDTEXT2 As far as I know it's not possible for an application to directly yank highlighted text from another application. The first application would have to first copy that text to the clipboard (Control-C in that app) and then the second application could grab it from the clipboard (ctrl-hotkey1) and then store it in its own variables. Ctrl-hotkey2 could then push the text back into the clipboard and then you can ctrl-V paste it in the other application. This type of functionality is known often found in clipboard manager programs. > I found "pyperclip" and "Tkinter" but I don't know where to start. Here's another file that demonstrates accessing the clipboard on the Linux, Mac, and Windows: https://github.com/Shizmob/clippy/blob/master/clip.py As for the hotkey stuff, that's also dependent on the operating system. Google for something like "python global hotkey linux" to get an example of how to implement that. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
