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clipboard text access from icfb

swdesigner
swdesigner over 14 years ago

Hello,

         Is there any way to accomplish something like this :

Is there any way, within icfb (say schematic editor), to be able to access text in the xwindows clipboard?

Here is my end goal :

I want to select text in my text editor (such as NEdit - outside icfb)

Then, in my schematic editor, I want to execute a bindkey that will :

search for instance name matching the selected tex
zoom to the instance


Any ideas will be great.

Thanks!

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    skillUser over 14 years ago

    Hi SWDesigner,

    To my knowledge there is no programmatic (API) interface to any clipboard or copy-paste buffer in SKILL.  However there appears to be a Linux command called "xclip" that may provide such access externally, and then perhaps this could be invoked/interacted with using the ipcBeginProcess and related commands in SKILL.

    That's all I have, hope it helps!

    Lawrence.

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  • skillUser
    skillUser over 14 years ago

    Hi SWDesigner,

    To my knowledge there is no programmatic (API) interface to any clipboard or copy-paste buffer in SKILL.  However there appears to be a Linux command called "xclip" that may provide such access externally, and then perhaps this could be invoked/interacted with using the ipcBeginProcess and related commands in SKILL.

    That's all I have, hope it helps!

    Lawrence.

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