Overview
- The Clip command is used to work with the clipboard, with actions for manipulating, tracking & editing of the system clipboard.
Actions
- Capture
- Sets PowerPro's clipboard history tracking state.
- ClearClip
- Clears the clip board.
- ClearRecent
- Clear PowerPro's list of recently captured clips.
- Copy
- Copies the selected text by sending Ctrl-C to the foreground window.
- CopyThenToFile
- Send Ctrl-C to copy the selected text, then copies the clipboard contents to a file.
- Cut
- Cuts the selected text by sending Ctrl-X to the foreground window.
- Delete
- Shows the clipboard history list, then deletes the entry selected by the user.
- File
- Copies a file to the clipboard.
- FilePaste
- Copies a file to the clipboard, then pastes it by sending Ctrl-V to the foreground window.
- FileIPaste
- Copies a file to the clipboard, then pastes it by sending Ctrl-Ins to the foreground window.
- LongDate
- Puts the date onto the clipboard in the system's long date format.
- Menu
- Shows a menu of recently captured clips (or, optionally, a menu of clips from another folder), allowing user to select an entry to put on the clipboard.
- MenuPaste
- Shows a menu of recently captured clips (or, optionally, a menu of clips from another folder), & the selected entry is put onto the clipboard then pasted into the active window using Ctrl-V.
- MenuIPaste
- Shows a menu of recently captured clips (or, optionally, a menu of clips from another folder), & the selected entry is put onto the clipboard then pasted into the active window using Ctrl-Ins.
- Reattach
- Puts PowerPro at the front of the queue of applications tracking clipboard history.
- Paste
- Sends Ctrl-V to the foreground window to paste the clipboard's contents.
- ShortDate
- Puts the date onto the clipboard in the system's short date format.
- Text
- Puts specified text onto the clipboard.
- TextAppend
- Appends specified text to the clipboard.
- TextPaste
- Put specified text onto the clipboard, and then pastes it to the active window with Ctrl-V.
- Time
- Puts the current time onto the clipboard.
- ToFile
- Copies the clipboard's contents to the specified text file.
- ToFileAppend
- Appends the clipboard's contents to the specified text file.
- Write
- Sets the state of writing of clips to memory.
See Also
- For more information on PowerPro's clipboard tracking features, see:
- PowerPro Help CHM > Built-in Commands > *Clip
- PowerPro Help CHM > Configuring with the GUI Dialogs > Clip Filters
- PowerPro Help CHM > Configuring with the GUI Dialogs > Clipboard History Tracking
- Most of the functions of the built-in Clip command work only with the first line of the clipboard. For information on working with multi-line clipboard strings, see:
- PPSR > Plugins > The Plugins > Clip