copy text to the clipboard or retrieve text from the clipboard.

[levi23]

Hello everyone. I would ask if it is possible to copy a text to the clipboard content from a javascript illustrator.

I also like to do the operation in reverse. retrieve text from the clipboard as a variable to use.

I have read on the Internet could be done by Bat or AppleScript files but I have been tested and have not gotten it to work.

It could run both Windows and Mac? It is possible?

I would appreciate any help. Keep looking information

Many thanks

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[levi23]

Hello such.

I've been looking information and have found a method that should work, but I'm not able to do.

The process would create a txt file and a file ejectutable (MAC) (command ?? sh?) And using this file created dynamically txt copy the contents to clipboard

Could anyone help me, please?

I am a novice in these matters, and even more in what refers to MAC

I guess it would be like a windows bat file, but I searched information but I do not know how to dynamically create and run it on Mac

I would appreciate any help.

Thank you very much.

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var doc = app.activeDocument; 
var text = doc.textFrames[0].contents; 
//alert(text)
copyTextToClipboard2(text)
function copyTextToClipboard2(text){
    var folderForTempFiles = '~/Desktop';
    var clipTxtFile = new File(folderForTempFiles + "/ClipBoardMac.txt");
    clipTxtFile.open('w');
    clipTxtFile.encoding = "UTF-8";
    clipTxtFile.lineFeed = "Unix";
    clipTxtFile.write(text);
    clipTxtFile.close();
    var clipBatFile = new File(folderForTempFiles + "/ClipBoard.command");
    if (clipBatFile.exists) {
        clipBatFile.remove();
    }
    clipBatFile.open('w');
    //clipBatFile.writeln("cat \"" + folderForTempFiles + "/ClipBoard.txt\"|clip");
    //clipBatFile.write("cat " + folderForTempFiles + " | pbcopy");
    clipBatFile.writeln("#!/bin/bash"+"\n"+"cat " + folderForTempFiles + "/ClipBoardMac.txt" + " | pbcopy");
    clipBatFile.close();
    clipBatFile.execute();
}

[Ten A]

Why don't you use copy and paste methods like below?

function copytxt(){
  if (app.selection.length==1&&app.selection[0].typename=="TextFrame")
  app.copy();
  }
function getclipboardtxt(){
  app.paste();
  var tx = app.activeDocument.textFrames[0].contents;
  app.activeDocument.textFrames[0].remove();
  return tx;
  }

[levi23]

thanks for your answer but my intent is to copy the unformatted text

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