Questions tagged [clipboard]
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File Path name copy&paste- single/double backslash problem
Shift+RightClick a file on windows explorer and select 'copy as path', then ctrl+v paste to mathematica notebook, then apply FileExistsQ :
ex1)
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Paste[] to same cell or CurrentClipboardContents[]?
I tried using Mathematica for watching my clipboard contents.
Paste[] creates a new cell each time it is evaluated though.
Is there a way to make ...
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Copy clipboard content to mathematica notebook - line break symbol changes
There are 3 kinds of line breaks
\r
\n
\r\n
For windows, \r\n is standard.
Suppose that there is a file called document.txt, using \r or \r\n as line breaks.
Suppose that I open document.txt with a ...
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Image format change when doing direct Cut/Paste
I usually produce graphics with Mathematica and then use Keynote (I am on a Mac running the latest Big Sur OS) for post processing. Until version 12.0.0.0 I would directly highlight the graphics in ...
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How do I make ClickToCopy copy some text rather than string?
Consider the following example:
ClickToCopy["display text","file name"]
When I click the display text I get ...
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Formatting output for use in forums etc [duplicate]
If we take the (simple) example
x = 1;
y = 2;
z = 3;
x + y + z
we get the (complete screen) result when copying into a more basic interface, such as a web forum ...
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How to get the contents of clipboard in a variable?
If I copy something into the clipboard then use var=Paste[]; I get Null in the var and the ...
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How to properly copy an image from Mathematica?
I want to copy an image in mathematica to use in another program.
E.g:
im = ExampleData[{"TestImage", "House"}]
When I evaluate ...
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Copy and Paste: what is copied to the clipboard?
Copy and Paste is so familiar and works so well that I never wondered what is really happening. My simple idea is that when I ...
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How can I copy a figure to the clipboard in SVG?
I frequently include plots in my emails. The easiest and most reliable way I have found is to just capture a part of the screen using greenshot (Windows) and paste into the message.
Microsoft ...
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Hidden Notebook inherits NotebookDynamicExpression?
Bug introduced in 8 or earlier and persisting through 11.3
The following behavior is stably reproduced with versions 8.0.4, 10.4.1, 11.0.1 and 11.1.1 on Windows 7 x64.
Set the ...
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How to get the image in the clipboard with a J/Link method?
The Paste will not give a return,just print the content of clipboard.It is hard to asign the result to a variable.I make a .NET method here to get the image in ...
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How to send string to clipboard by wolframscript
Bug introduced in 11.0 and fixed in 11.1.
This is my "t.txt" file
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How to create .NET "System.Windows.Clipboard"?
I have followed the instructions for creating a blank .Net form and it works.
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Code request: Make "copy formatted code" bulletproof
With the GeneralUtilities`PrintDefinitions functions comes a usable code formatting engine. On this site, most of the time we share code. I believe it would be ...
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How to make a get image by a NETObject
This more then a .net question but I'm in Mathematica using.Suppose I want to get a image from my clipboard,so I make a function ...
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Weird Copy Paste Behavior
Since 11 I've been seeing this weird copying and pasting behavior for cell groups. Here's an example where I copied and pasted a cell group below:
Is there any way to change this back to the usual ...
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Printing an array such that the values can be copied and pasted to a Excel Row
Given an array I would like to print it in Mathematica such that the values can be simply copied and pasted into an Excel's row. What is the best approach for this?
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How to copy formatted numbers as MathML without quotation marks?
I have the following code:
a = 6.08717*10^6;
b = a/3;
c = a*1.5;
d = a^2;
matrix={{a, b, c, d},{b, c, d, a},{c, d, a, b},{d, a, b, c}};
matrix // EngineeringForm
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CopyToClipboard freezes FrontEnd
Bug introduced in 8.0 and persisting through 12.0 or later
CopyToClipboard is new in 8.0.
This is freezing the FrontEnd:
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Setting output width for CopyToClipboard
Suppose I have a long string and I copy it to the clipboard:
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Unmodified Clipboard content
How do I get unmodified text content from the clipboard?
If you copy the following into the clipboard and use ClipboardNotebook[] ...
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No Way to paste a Picture from Clipboard under Linux?
As far as I remember, on a Windows PC in the old days of Mathematica 4 I could paste an image from the clipboard by just pressing Ctl-V. This seems to be no longer available on my Linux PC.
If I try ...
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How can I get Mathematica to support the clipboard?
For several decades, the clipboard feature supported by all mainstream operating systems has functioned as a method of exchange between applications (not just within them), by serving as a kind of ...
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In a tool for a programmatic drawing let us capture a locator position into a clipboard [closed]
This code allows one to fast draw a technical sketch. I simplified it to extreme. It contains a disk (instead of your real sketch) and a line pointing to a place in the sketch, which you want to ...
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How to Copy formatted code without backslashes added?
By default code copied from the FrontEnd is formatted with backslashes added at the ends of lines. For example, evaluating in a Notebook
Range[40]
and copying ...
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Understanding `Paste` and how to get a string from the Clipboard to use with `ImportString`
Trying to work on this question I got distracted by my first naive attempt of copying the data and then typing
dat = ImportString[Paste[], "Table"]
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Assign clipboard object in mathematica when print screen is pressed (windows)
Mathematica runs behind, while another window is selected. When I press print screen, I want mathematica too detect this and call a function with the picture as argument.
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How to copy an image given as a GraphicsBox expression to the clipboard?
I have a GraphicsBox expression encoding an image. I need to copy this image to the clipboard so that it can be inserted in a Microsoft Word document. When I invoke ...
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How to convert an image to a compressed string representation equivalent to one copied to clipboard by `CopyToClipboard[image]`?
In my recent question I asked How to embed an image into a string?
The suggested solution was
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Clipboard with transparency
After reading this question I have determined that
Rasterize[Graphics[Circle[]], "Image", Background -> None]
allows you to do ...
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Pasting external PDF vector graphics without losing ability to export them
Update: Problem persists in version 10.2 on Mac OS X 10.9.5
As in previous versions, Mathematica 9 on Mac OS X (10.7.5 here) still has a problem with pasted PDF ...
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Exporting data from Excel into Mathematica using clipboard
I know that it's possible to import Excel data into Mathematica using the Import command, as we can see in this post. But sometimes I need just to do some fast ...
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Cut and paste data from a spreadsheet
I have a set of data points in two columns in a spreadsheet (OpenOffice Calc):
I would like to get these into Mathematica in this format:
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Copying an image from the clipboard, modifying it and returning it to the clipboard
I have a Mathematica script to help me copy images from PDFs and then make the (presumably white or nearly white) background transparent. Typically, I am looking at the PDF in Adobe Acrobat and I ...
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How to "Copy as Unicode" from a Notebook?
I spent some time manually editing a post replacing Mathematica ASCII \[Alpha] with Unicode α. I did this by laboriously ...
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