Help with Macro Error Correction & Enhancement

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UWK-87

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Hi Guys,

Was creating a small macro, that does the following:

Copy Selected Text
Opens Notepad.exe
Paste the selected text

The issue is if I do the following code, sometime CF pastes before even notepad window gets focus:

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public static class ClipboardFusionHelper
{
    public static string ProcessText(string text)
    {
        
        BFS.Clipboard.CopyText();
        BFS.Application.Start("notepad.exe");
        BFS.Clipboard.Paste();
        return text;
    }
}

I resolved that issue by using ThreadWait in between application start and paste, however, I believe that is not a proper method so I wanted to use the WindowFocus and that is where I get the error. Below is the code and the error:

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public static class ClipboardFusionHelper
{
    public static string ProcessText(string text)
    {
        
        BFS.Clipboard.CopyText();
        BFS.Application.Start("notepad.exe");
        IntPtr mainWindow = BFS.Application.GetAppIDByWindow("Untitled - Notepad"); 
        BFS.Window.Focus(mainWindow);
        //BFS.General.ThreadWait(500);
        BFS.Clipboard.Paste();
        return text;
    }
}

ERROR:

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The best overloaded method match for 'BFS.Application.GetAppIDByWindow(System.IntPtr)' has some invalid arguments
 Argument 1: cannot convert from 'string' to 'System.IntPtr'

Can someone kindly help with the above code. Also is there is another Macro that Thomas created "Get Filenames from Clipboard". Is it possible to achieve the following:

Check Selected Data, If text proceed to next step. If files then get result from "Get Filenames from Clipbpard Macro"
Open Notepad
Make sure the focus command makes it active (Is it possible to handle a case where multiple notepad files are open then focus on the newly created process?)
Paste either the Filenames or Text

Thanks is advance guys.

Jan 30, 2018 (modified Jan 31, 2018) • #1

Let's solve the first problem first (verifying that the Notepad window has focus). Can you give this code a try?

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public static class ClipboardFusionHelper
{
    public static string ProcessText(string text)
    {
        // Copy the selected text
        BFS.Clipboard.CopyText();
        
        // Launch Notepad
        uint appID = BFS.Application.Start("notepad.exe");
        
        // Wait up to 10 seconds for it to open and receive focus
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
        {
            // If the newly launched Notepad window has focus, paste the text and break out of the loop
            if (BFS.Window.GetFocusedWindow() == BFS.Application.GetMainWindowByAppID(appID))
                {
                    BFS.Clipboard.Paste();
                    break;
                }
            
            // If we got here, the Notepad window doesn't yet have focus, wait 1 second before restarting the loop
            BFS.General.ThreadWait(1000);
        }
        return text;
    }
}

Jan 31, 2018 • #2

UWK-87

166 discussion posts

Hi Keith,

Thank you so much for helping out. Worked like a charm for the 1st issue.

Thanks,
Usama Waheed

Jan 31, 2018 • #3

Ok, try this out for the second thing

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;

public static class ClipboardFusionHelper
{
    public static string ProcessText(string text)
    {
        // Copy the selected text
        text = BFS.Clipboard.CopyText();
        
        // If the copied selection is a file list from Explorer, run the "Get Filenames from Clipboard" macro
        if (Clipboard.ContainsFileDropList())
        {
            BFS.ClipboardFusion.RunMacro("Get Filenames from Clipboard", text, out text);
            BFS.Clipboard.SetText(text);
        }
            
        // Launch Notepad
        uint appID = BFS.Application.Start("notepad.exe");
        
        // Wait up to 10 seconds for it to open and receive focus
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
        {
            // If the newly launched Notepad window has focus, paste the text and break out of the loop
            if (BFS.Window.GetFocusedWindow() == BFS.Application.GetMainWindowByAppID(appID))
                {
                    BFS.Clipboard.Paste();
                    break;
                }
            
            // If we got here, the Notepad window doesn't yet have focus, wait 1 second before restarting the loop
            BFS.General.ThreadWait(1000);
        }
        return text;
    }
}

Jan 31, 2018 • #4

UWK-87

166 discussion posts

Thanks Keith worked like a charm