Copy to Clipboard

Question

I have a script that generates a text file.
I can save it just fine, but I need to be able to also copy it to the system clipboard.
It needs to work on whatever platform a user happens to be on: Windows, Mac, etc.
How do you do this in an AE script?
Thanks

Answer 1

I have this for Windows, but there should be a cross-platform solution.
//This works on Vista and Win 7,  XP requires the user to copy 'clip.exe' to the 'sys32' folder.
function copyTextToClipboard2(text)
   var folderForTempFiles = Folder.temp.fsName;
   //alert(folderForTempFiles)
   // create a new textfile and put the text into it
   var clipTxtFile =new File(folderForTempFiles + "/ClipBoard.txt");
   clipTxtFile.open('w');
   clipTxtFile.write(text);
   clipTxtFile.close();
   // use the clip.exe to copy the contents of the textfile to the windows clipboard
   var clipBatFile =new File(folderForTempFiles + "/ClipBoard.bat");
   clipBatFile.open('w');
   clipBatFile.writeln("clip < " + folderForTempFiles + "/ClipBoard.txt");
   clipBatFile.close();
   clipBatFile.execute();