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answered on 13 Aug 2012, 09:30 PM

Hi Anthony

The clipboard class doesn't work. I can only assume this is because the content is running in a MTU state, the clipboard function must be run in a STA thread.

I did some research and found that the following code snippet should work, but doesn't in Test Studio...

//COM Voodoo

IDataObject idat = null;

Exception threadEx = null;

Thread staThread = new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(

delegate

{

Console.WriteLine("Thread Started");

try

{

Console.WriteLine("Grabbing IdataObj");

idat = Clipboard.GetDataObject();

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

Console.WriteLine("Exception caught");

threadEx = ex;

}

}));

staThread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);

Console.WriteLine("Starting Thread");

Console.WriteLine("Apartment State: {0}", staThread.GetApartmentState().ToString());

staThread.Start();

staThread.Join();

var content = idat.GetData(DataFormats.Text);

Console.WriteLine("Clipboard contents: {0}", content);

Console.WriteLine("Press Any Key...");

Console.ReadKey(false);

If you could take another look at this I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks Jon

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answered on 14 Aug 2012, 02:58 PM

Hello Jon,

The following code works in our testing:

public string ClipboardMethod()

{

string content = Clipboard.GetText();

return content;

}

[CodedStep(@"New Coded Step")]

public void ClipboardTest_CodedStep()

{

string content = string.Empty;

var thread = new Thread(obj =>

{

content = this.ClipboardMethod();

});

thread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);

thread.Start();

thread.Join();

Log.WriteLine(content);

}

Kind regards,
Anthony
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Validating clipboard content

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