JimboBaggins

Just now, acantor said:

 

I was able to prove (to myself, anyways) that the restore instruction needed time before the variable was available.

 

I wish it wasn't so. Maybe a delay isn't necessary on a faster computer. The Windows 10 machine I bought 1.5 years ago is a bit pokey.

I removed all delays in mine and it's working great. I'm on a beefed up Gen 3 Thinkpad X1 though.

Seriously folks - thanks for the input. Loving this!

It was the variable mush - working as intended now. I didnt see it adding the the extra Clip2 instead of replacing Clip1.

thank you all so much!!!!!!!!

Dang - added 100ms between each step of all macros and same issue.

ctrl-1

<CLIPBOARD EMPTY/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<CONTROL>c"/>
<VARIABLE SET STRING Option="\x02" Destination="%Clip1%" NoEmbeddedVars="TRUE"/>
<VARIABLE SAVE Option="\x01"/>
<BEEP/>
 

alt-1

<VARIABLE RESTORE Option="\x01"/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="%Clip1%"/>

ctrl-2

<CLIPBOARD EMPTY/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<CONTROL>c"/>
<VARIABLE SET STRING Option="\x02" Destination="%Clip2%" NoEmbeddedVars="TRUE"/>
<VARIABLE SAVE Option="\x01"/>
<BEEP/>

alt-2

<VARIABLE RESTORE Option="\x01"/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="%Clip2%"/>

This is who I set them up on my first attempt. If I use these right in a row, the variable save in the 2nd macro wipes out the saved from the first one. So, only the latest one used saves for use in the alt macro.

Thanks for replying!

That's not a bad way of doing it for this one instance, but it prevents using it in other situations outside this particular scenario. Any ideas on how I could make it so I just had ctrl1-9 as clipboard that saves to variable T1-9, then alt1-9 as pasting those variables elsewhere?

Here is the scenario. I have a spreadsheet I need 4 different cells copied from. I need to paste them into another form. Instead of doing these 1 by 1, I am trying to make a series of macros that would let me save clipboard to a variable using ctrl1, then paste that variable using alt1. The idea is that I can get all 4 cells of data saved into variables to paste into the other form. like this: Click into cell b1, hit ctrl 1. Click into f1, hit ctrl 2. h1, ctrl3. l1, ctrl 4. Then I would go to my other form select filed, alt1. Next field, alt 2 and so on.

When I try to do this, it will kind of work for the first one, but when I save the variable in the 2nd macro, it overwrites the data and I lose the data from variable %T[1]%.

I need to be able to save 4 text variables for use in the text type macro to "paste" the info from each variable.

Or some other way to accomplish this.

Thanks in advance - I hope this made some sense.