Classic Style History Menu

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Description	This macro recreates the classic style of the history menu from ClipboardFusion 4.x.
Language	C# (.Net)
Minimum Version	5.0+
Created By	Thomas Malloch (BFS)
Contributors	-
Date Created	Mar 23, 2017
Date Last Modified	Mar 23, 2017

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using System; using System.Collections.Specialized; using System.Drawing; using System.Windows.Forms; // The 'text' parameter will contain the text from the: // - Current Clipboard when run by HotKey // - History Item when run from the History Menu // The returned string will be: // - Placed directly on the Clipboard // - Ignored by ClipboardFusion if it is 'null' public static class ClipboardFusionHelper { public static string ProcessText(string text) { //create a new ContextMenuStrip to show the items using(ContextMenuStrip menu = new ContextMenuStrip()) { //dont show the padding on the left of the menu menu.ShowCheckMargin = false; menu.ShowImageMargin = false; //set the font so it isn't huge menu.Font = new Font(menu.Font.FontFamily, 8, FontStyle.Regular); //loop through the first 25 history items for(int i = 0; (i < BFS.ClipboardFusion.GetHistoryItemCount()) && (i < 25); i++) { //get the history item data text = BFS.ClipboardFusion.GetHistoryText(i); Bitmap image = BFS.ClipboardFusion.GetHistoryImage(i); string[] fileList = BFS.ClipboardFusion.GetHistoryFileList(i); //strip the newline characters out of the text for the title, and limit it to 50 characters string title = string.IsNullOrEmpty(text) ? "[Empty]" : text; title = title.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "\n").Replace("\r", "\n").Replace("\n", ""); if(title.Length > 50) title = title.Substring(0, 50); //make the context menu item ToolStripMenuItem item = new ToolStripMenuItem(title); //if the item contains an image, set the background image to the item if(image != null) { item.BackgroundImage = image; item.BackgroundImageLayout = ImageLayout.Stretch; } //make the ClipboardData object ClipboardData data = new ClipboardData(text, image, fileList); //set the click event, set the ClipboardData to the tag, and add the item to the menu item.Click += ItemClick; item.Tag = data; menu.Items.Add(item); } //add an item that you can click to close the menu menu.Items.Add("Close"); menu.Items[menu.Items.Count - 1].ForeColor = Color.Red; //show the menu menu.Show(BFS.Input.GetMousePositionX(), BFS.Input.GetMousePositionY()); //wait for the menu to close while(menu.Visible) Application.DoEvents(); //dispose the objects foreach(ToolStripMenuItem item in menu.Items) { ClipboardData data = item.Tag as ClipboardData; if(data != null) data.Dispose(); item.Dispose(); } } return null; } //this function will be called when you click on a regular menu item private static void ItemClick(object sender, EventArgs e) { try { //get the menu item object ToolStripMenuItem item = sender as ToolStripMenuItem; if(item == null) throw new Exception("ToolStripMenuItem is NULL"); //get the ClipboardData object ClipboardData data = item.Tag as ClipboardData; if(data == null) throw new Exception("ClipboardData is NULL"); //depending on what data we have, set the clipboard if(data.Image != null) { Clipboard.SetImage(data.Image); BFS.Clipboard.Paste(); } else if(data.FileList.Length > 0) { StringCollection collection = new StringCollection(); collection.AddRange(data.FileList); Clipboard.SetFileDropList(collection); BFS.Clipboard.Paste(); } else { BFS.Clipboard.PasteText(data.Text); } } catch(Exception ex) { //if something happened, show an error BFS.Dialog.ShowMessageError(ex.Message); } } //this is an object that will store the Clipboard History Item data private class ClipboardData : IDisposable { public string Text; public Bitmap Image; public string[] FileList; public ClipboardData(string text, Bitmap image, string[] fileList) { this.Text = text; this.Image = image; this.FileList = fileList; } public void Dispose() { if(this.Image != null) this.Image.Dispose(); } } }