Test accessing the Copy and Paste function

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Lightning
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Test accessing the Copy and Paste function

Post by Lightning » Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:25 pm

Hey,

The AUT I am using has some cool hotkey functionality where I can press the keyboard shortcut to copy and the build number of the AUT I am working on will be placed in the clipboard so that I can then easily paste the build number when executing test cases.

I would like to incorporate this in to a test, so that I can copy this build number in to ranorex as a variable and append this variable to file names generated by my test scripts - in order to keep them unique, the copy function should be as simple as :

Keyboard.Press("{LControlKey down}{Ckey down}");

Can someone suggest the best means for getting the contents from the 'paste' functionality, I would prefer not to have to paste this information to a notepad then getting the text from there but that is the current solution I am considering.

Cheers.

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Ciege
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Re: Test accessing the Copy and Paste function

Post by Ciege » Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:45 pm

Once you have the version copied on the "clipboard" you can use this to assign it to a variable...

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string strMyVariable = System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.GetText();
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Lightning
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Re: Test accessing the Copy and Paste function

Post by Lightning » Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:48 pm

Thanks very much.