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/clipboard command not reliable? #231913 09/05/11 11:59 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,552 Germany H Horstl OP Hoopy frood
OP Horstl Hoopy frood H Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,552 Germany	With the following code, mIRC apparently misses one or more of the /clipboard commands Code: alias cbbug { clipboard var %string = A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T, %n = 1 while ($gettok(%string,%n,32)) { clipboard -a $v1 inc %n } var %copy = $cb echo -a clipboard: $len(%copy) $qt($cb(0).len) of $numtok(%string,32) chars: echo -a clipboard: $cb clipboard } ; not required - just for convenience alias cbtest { .timer -m 10 50 cbbug } Quote: clipboard: 0 "19" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPQRST clipboard: 18 "18" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDFGHIJKLMNOQRST clipboard: 18 "18" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPRST clipboard: 37 "37" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPRSTABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRST clipboard: 18 "18" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDFGHIJKLNOPQRST clipboard: 19 "19" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDFGHIJKLMNOPQRST clipboard: 19 "19" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDFGHIJKLMNOPQRST clipboard: 18 "18" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDFGHIJKLMNOQRST clipboard: 18 "18" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDFGHIJKLNOPQRST clipboard: 20 "20" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST clipboard: 15 "15" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDEGHINOPQRST clipboard: 18 "0" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDEGHIJKLMOPQRST clipboard: 0 "0" of 20 chars: clipboard: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST [...] Edit: v7.19, XP mce; and it's not related to the -a switch: Code: alias cbbug2 { var %string = A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T, %n = 1, %copy while ($gettok(%string,%n,32)) { clipboard $v1 var %copy = %copy $+ $cb inc %n } echo -a clipboard: $len(%copy) of $numtok(%string,32) chars: %copy } Quote: clipboard: 20 of 20 chars: ABCDEFFHIJKLMMOPQRST clipboard: 18 of 20 chars: ABCEFFHIJKLMNOPRST clipboard: 14 of 20 chars: ACDDFHIMNPQRST clipboard: 19 of 20 chars: ABCDEFGHIJKKMNOPRST clipboard: 15 of 20 chars: ABCDDFHILMPQQST [...] Last edited by Horstl; 10/05/11 12:05 AM.

Re: /clipboard command not reliable? Horstl #231914 10/05/11 12:10 AM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA R Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood R Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA	Tested both on 7.19 Windows 7 and always get 20/20 without error.

Re: /clipboard command not reliable? Horstl #231917 10/05/11 01:11 AM
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,020 France W Wims Hoopy frood
Wims Hoopy frood W Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,020 France	Same here, win7 and mIRC 7.19, can't reproduce it. Tried on a clean mIRC? Last edited by Wims; 10/05/11 01:12 AM. #mircscripting @ irc.swiftirc.net == the best mIRC help channel

Re: /clipboard command not reliable? Wims #231919 10/05/11 01:39 AM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,552 Germany H Horstl OP Hoopy frood
OP Horstl Hoopy frood H Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,552 Germany	I did (restarted the sys as well). I'll start checking with older versions now.

Re: /clipboard command not reliable? Horstl #231920 10/05/11 02:09 AM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA R Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood R Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA	Use -s to display what the variables are set to at the time they are set and see if that helps you find the problem.

Re: /clipboard command not reliable? Horstl #231923 10/05/11 07:49 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 294 D drum Pan-dimensional mouse
drum Pan-dimensional mouse D Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 294	Do you have any other software running that could be monitoring/modifying the clipboard?

Re: /clipboard command not reliable? drum #231939 10/05/11 11:53 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,552 Germany H Horstl OP Hoopy frood
OP Horstl Hoopy frood H Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,552 Germany	Several blind alleys later, I finally managed to identify the cause of the problem: a java applet with the ability to monitor the clipboard (to catch-and-process a set of specific urls on occasion), burried in my system startup routine. Even though the actual cb monitoring option of the app was disabled for the time being, it apparantly kept reading the cb and thus, somehow, interfered with the rapid, successive cb-access attempts of mIRC. Thanks to all who looked into the issue; sorry for the bother!

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