Filling ActiveScript Variables with Textblock ?

[amix]

I am writing a script, that either takes the currently marked block of text and constructs a HTML file with it, which then will be run in IE, or, if no mark set, it marks the whole text and constructs the HTML from that.

There is no way to access the Clipboard with ActiveScript. I did not find a COM or WSC doing this, either.

The only possibility seems to use temporary textfiles, that I then load via WSH and glue together.

Would it be a lot of work to add a possibility for filling a script-variable with the contents of the marked block ?

Like:

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var txt = zeus.get_marked_contents();

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[jussij]

Doesn't this work

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Function key_macro()
  'get the marked text 
  text = zeus.macro_tag("$M")

  ' put it into the clipboard
  zeus.set_clipboard_text(text)
End Function

key_macro() ' run the macro

Cheers Jussi

[amix]

Yes, you're right. I just discovered the get_clipboard_text() a few minutes ago. Actually I saw it before, but I thought that this would paste. Sorry.

[amix]

Oops, nope, I was too quick.

It should actually work with get_clipboard_text() rather than the $M MacroTag, since that, according to the documentation, only retreives a single line max.

What I need to do is to store a whole block in a buffer, but as it seems I can do this by copying it and then using get_clipboard_text().

[jussij]

The document is wrong. The function will copy the entire marked area.

Cheers Jussi

[amix]

Ok. Thanks.