copy the clipboard content to a string variable permanently?

[Johnc]

How to copy the clipboard content into a string variable permanently?

I would think a simple STRING definition would do but it wasn't that simple!

for example:

8 | RUN ACTION | | | | DEFINE STRING VARIABLE | %STRING1%::%CLIPBOARD%
9 | RUN ACTION | | | | MESSAGE PROMPT | %STRING1%::clip

Worked immediately after this macro line. However, as the macro goes on to subsequent lines
that I put something else into the clipboard, the %STRING1% variable changed into the clipboard content 
without the %STRING1% variable being referenced or re-defined in subsequent lines! 

Is this normal or am I missing something again?
I need to permanently store different clipboard results into different variables. How can it be done?

Thanks once again!

[Johnc]

This is strange... An INTEGER variable seems to hold the value that it copied from the clipboard permanently:

8 | RUN ACTION | | | | DEFINE INTEGER VARIABLE | %INTEGER1%::%CLIPBOARD%
9 | RUN ACTION | | | | MESSAGE PROMPT | %INTEGER1%::clip

Any enlightenment? Thank you!

[Steve]

Hi John,

1 | RUN ACTION |  |  |  | DEFINE STRING VARIABLE | %STRING%::%clipboard%
2 | RUN ACTION |  |  |  | MESSAGE PROMPT | %string%::clip


Defining the %string% as %clipboard% sets the variable permanently to %clipboard%. Note the screenshot above.

The %integer1% variable in your example will hold the value, if %clipboard% is a valid integer, because it is forced at run time from a string to an integer for the variable definition. Something like integer1 = cint(%clipboard%). When clipboard is not a number the conversion will not happen.

I've given this one a really quick look, and at this stage all i can think to make this work is outputting the value to a .mmmacro file and running it at run time on a separate MMM process.

This example needs a bit of work, but something like will get us in the right direction:
1 | RUN ACTION |  |  |  | DEFINE STRING VARIABLE | %STRING%::%string%
2 | RUN ACTION |  |  |  | RUN VIA CMD /C | echo 1 ^| RUN ACTION ^|  ^|  ^|  ^| DEFINE STRING VARIABLE ^| %STRING%::%clipboard%>c:\temp\mmmout.mmmacro
3 | IF | FILE | C:\temp\mmmout.mmmacro | EXIST | CONTINUE
4 | RUN ACTION |  |  |  | RUN VIA CMD /C | C:\temp\MiniMouseMacro.exe /e /d:1000 c:\temp\mmmout.mmmacro
5 | RUN ACTION |  |  |  | WAIT SECONDS | 5
6 | RUN ACTION |  |  |  | MESSAGE PROMPT | Value: %string%::clip

I need to do some more work on IO control with stdin and stdout.

[Johnc]

Thank you so much Steve for the explanation. Perhaps I try to limit myself to Integer variables for now and only use
one string variable ie clipboard to store 1 string and "parse" the string using multiple "backspace"s LOL!

Thanks for demonstrating how a separate MMM process can be run and it may become handy in the future.

Despite some small limitations, I still think MMM is one of the best and most powerful MACRO tool out there!
I am still scratching the surface here and would love to explore and learn more about the NetWork tool
as I don't know anything about Networking. Wow, there is a Network packet monitor too! It is working but I
have no idea what packet strings/text to look for etc.

Thanks Steve once again for making this wonderful tool available to the public! Highly appreciated!