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Incrementing PowerPaste

Description	This macro will paste the selected item in the History List, and with each subsequent use, it will increment the index it remembers and paste the next item in the History List.
Language	C#
Minimum Version	5.4+
Created By	Thomas Malloch (BFS)
Contributors	-
Date Created	Jul 3, 2018
Date Last Modified	Jul 3, 2018

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

// 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)
	{
        // Tell ClipboardFusion to ignore any changes to the Clipboard
        BFS.ClipboardFusion.PauseClipboardListener();
	
        // If the clipboard manager is open, reset the index and paste
        // Otherwise, keep incrementing the index and pasting
        
        IntPtr handle;
        if( IsClipboardManagerOpen(out handle) )
        {
            // Get the selected Clipboard Manager index, and make sure that it's at least 0
            int index = BFS.ClipboardFusion.GetClipboardManagerSelectedIndex();
            if(index == -1)
                index = 0;
            
            // Save the value
            BFS.ScriptSettings.WriteValueInt("ClipboardFusion_Script_IncrementIndex", index);
                
            // Paste the selected index
            BFS.Clipboard.PasteText( BFS.ClipboardFusion.GetHistoryText(index) );
            
            // Close the ClipboardManager
            BFS.Window.Close(handle);
		}
		else
		{
            // Get the saved index
            int index = BFS.ScriptSettings.ReadValueInt("ClipboardFusion_Script_IncrementIndex");
        
            // Increment the index
            index++;
        
            // Save the incremented index
            BFS.ScriptSettings.WriteValueInt("ClipboardFusion_Script_IncrementIndex", index);
        
            // Tell ClipboardFusion to ignore any changes to the Clipboard
            BFS.ClipboardFusion.PauseClipboardListener();
                    
            // Paste the selected index
            BFS.Clipboard.PasteText( BFS.ClipboardFusion.GetHistoryText(index) );
		}
		
		// Get ClipboardFusion to start watching the Clipboard again
        BFS.ClipboardFusion.ResumeClipboardListener();
		
		// Tell ClipboardFusion to not do anything with the result of this Macro
		return null;
	}
	
	// This isn't the 
	private static bool IsClipboardManagerOpen(out IntPtr handle)
    {
        handle = IntPtr.Zero;
    
        // Loop through all visible windows and look for a window with the right title that is run by the ClipboardFusion process
        foreach(IntPtr window in BFS.Window.GetVisibleWindowHandles())
        {
            if(BFS.Window.GetText(window).IndexOf("ClipboardFusion", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != 0)
                continue;
            
            if(BFS.Application.GetMainFileByWindow(window).IndexOf("clipboardfusion.exe", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == -1)
                continue;
            
            // Set the handle to the window we found
            handle = window;
            return true;
        }
        
        // If we got this far, that means we didn't find anything
        return false;
    }
}

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