Set string to clipboard

Question

Hi,
Photoshop JSX noob here.
I want to do a very basic thing: copy a selection rectangle as text.
Ideally if I can get the location of the mouse and copy it to the clipboard, that would be great,
but bounds is ok as well.
I've managed to output selection coordinates:
$.writeln(app.activeDocument.selection.bounds);
how can I get those coordinates copied into the system clipboard ?
note: I am using osx 10.5.8.

Answer 1

Christof, this is related to another post 'Brush Opacity on the mac' but as you have CS4 would you be kind enough to test this…
#target photoshop
// Must be Foremost to accept the key commands
app.bringToFront();
// If you have the brush tool selected
// This should keystroke 'enter'
var sh = app.system("osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke (ASCII character 3)'");
sh ? alert('Failed?') : alert('Done…');
// This should keystroke string value '36'
var sh = app.system("osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"36\"'");
sh ? alert('Failed?') : alert('Done…');
// This should keystroke 'tab'
var sh = app.system("osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke tab'");
sh ? alert('Failed?') : alert('Done…');
// This should keystroke string value '64'
var sh = app.system("osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"64\"'");
sh ? alert('Failed?') : alert('Done…');
// This should keystroke 'enter' again
var sh = app.system("osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke (ASCII character 3)'");
sh ? alert('Failed?') : alert('Done…');
You can comment out the dialog stuff. This all works as AppleScript without issue but someone wanted to know if there was a mac workaround with JavaScript…