Clipboard contents modification as soon as Ctrl+C is pressed: ClipGet() returns 0.

[nf67]

Hi all,

I've been copying a lot of text from PDF files and other documents. Problem is, this text appears badly mangled when pasted again, causing formatting issues. I've been trying to write a script that would automatically reformat the copied string:

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#include <Clipboard.au3>
#include <Misc.au3>

If _Singleton("PasteModify", 1) = 0 Then
    MsgBox(0, "NOPE.", "Already Running.")
    Exit
EndIf

#NoTrayIcon
Opt("TrayMenuMode", 1)
$AboutTrayItem = TrayCreateItem("About")
TrayCreateItem("")
$ExitTrayItem = TrayCreateItem("Exit")
TraySetState()

$hDLL = DllOpen("user32.dll")

Beep(1100,300)

While 1
   While _IsPressed("11",$hDLL)
 If _IsPressed("43",$hDLL) Then
Beep(1300,150)
;Sleep(750) ;fixes the issue, but not very elegantly.
$OriginalClipboardData = ClipGet()
$ClipGetError = @error
$RegexClipboardData = StringRegExpReplace($OriginalClipboardData, '[\r\n\t]+', ' ')
$StripWSClipboardData = StringStripWS($RegexClipboardData,4)
ClipPut($StripWSClipboardData)
MsgBox(0,$ClipGetError,"ORIGINAL: " & $OriginalClipboardData & @CRLF & @CRLF & "POST-REGEX APPLIED: " & StringRegExpReplace($OriginalClipboardData, '[\r\n\t]+', ' ') & @CRLF & @CRLF & "STRIPWS APPLIED: " & $StripWSClipboardData & @CRLF & @CRLF & "END RESULT: " & ClipGet())
While _IsPressed("43",$hDLL)
Sleep(250)
WEnd
 EndIf
   WEnd

   Local $msg = TrayGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $msg = $AboutTrayItem
            MsgBox(64, "About", "When CTRL+C is pressed, a reformatted version of the string that has thereby been copied, without any newline characters, should be placed on the clipboard.")
        Case $msg = $ExitTrayItem
            ExitLoop
    EndSelect
WEnd

DllClose($hDLL)
Beep(600,300)

However, every now and then it seems like there's a conflict between this script Windows' access to the clipboard.

If I don't include a long enough sleep (see script), ClipGet() will return that my clipboard is empty, even though it wasn't empty before and I have only selected new text and pressed Ctrl+C since.

Any suggestions? Could I check for clipboard access perhaps...?

[wakillon]

Why not use a PDF text extractor command line tool as Xpdf ?

Link : pdftotext.exe