On 10/27/2018 08:17 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 > 3. Highlight another string of text > 4. Ctl+HOTKEY1 stores another string of text somewhere as COPIEDTEXT2 > > THEN > > 5. Ctl+HOTKEY2 pastes COPIEDTEXT1 > 6. Ctl+HOTKEY2 pastes COPIEDTEXT2 > > I found "pyperclip" and "Tkinter" but I don't know where to start. > > Thanks, > > Musatov >
I am able to do this with clipboard (pip install clipboard). However, the highlighted text must be copied explicitly: Highlight Ctl-C In Python: TEXT1 = clipboard.paste() Highlight again TEXT2 = clipboard.paste() X actually has several clipboard buffers and it can be tricky to get this going. I don't recall, but either clipboard or pyperclip have a way to get to them all IIRC ... HTH, -Tim -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
