如何将二进制内容加载到剪贴板而不删除或操作任何内容？ （AutoHotkey的）

Question

I have binary content stored in a file (containing previous clipboard content) is being modified (without purpose or adding code for this) every time I try to load it to clipboard.

The binary content represents organised paragraphs on OneNote copied to clipboard. In order to be able to use later, I saved the clipboard binary contents to test.clip file using:

FileAppend, %ClipboardAll%, C:\My\Path\test.clip

Then when I try to retrieve the binary file test.clip contents to clipboard using:

FileRead, Clipboard, *c C:\My\Path\test.clip

And paste to OneNote, I get incomplete paragraphs from the ones that was copied before and saved to the binary file.

I tried to check the difference between the old binary file test.clip and the clipboard content after loading this file. I saved the new clipboard content to test2.clip after retrieving test.clip to check if there's something manipulated or not using:

FileRead, Clipboard, *c C:\My\Path\test.clip
FileAppend, %ClipboardAll%, C:\My\Path\test2.clip

I compared the two files test.clip and test2.clip (Which are expected to be the same). I found that there's a block of binary code (at the end of the file) was removed after each load for test.clip to clipboard (The removed block is marked red in the below image):

How could I fix this to load the binary clipboard content stored in test.clip without getting anything removed or manipulated from the actual file content?

Answer 1

Don't use %ClipboardAll% here. Just use %clipboard% .

" Clipboard is a built-in variable that reflects the current contents of the Windows clipboard if those contents can be expressed as text.
By contrast , ClipboardAll contains everything on the clipboard, such as pictures and formatting ."
- https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Clipboard.htm

Quoting from the docs again, I think i see your problem: " If ClipboardAll cannot retrieve one or more of the data objects (formats) on the clipboard , they will be omitted but all the remaining objects will be stored. "

As an example:

F4::
FileAppend, %Clipboard%, clipboardcontents.clip
FileRead, Clipboard, clipboardcontents.clip