Use clipboard from VBScript

Question

I am looking for a method to place some text onto the clipboard with VBScript. The VBScript in question will be deployed as part of our login script. I would like to avoid

Answer 1

No security warnings and no carriage return at the end of line

' value to put in Clipboard
mavaleur = "YEAH"

' current Dir
path = WScript.ScriptFullName
GetPath = Left(path, InStrRev(path, "\"))

' Put the value in a file
Set objFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
outFile=GetPath & "fichier.valeur"
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(outFile,True)
objFile.Write mavaleur
objFile.Close

' Put the file in the Clipboard
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "cmd.exe /c clip < " & outFile, 0, TRUE

' Erase the file
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.DeleteFile outFile

Answer 2

I've found a way to copy multi line information to clipboard by vbscript/cmd.

Sequence:

• with VBS generate the final "formatted string" that you need copy to clipboard
• generate a (txt) file with the "formatted string"
• use type command from cmd to paste information to clip by pipe

Example script:

Function CopyToClipboard( sInputString )

    Dim oShell: Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    Dim sTempFolder: sTempFolder = oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%TEMP%")
    Dim sFullFilePath: sFullFilePath = sTempFolder & "\" & "temp_file.txt"

    Const iForWriting = 2, bCreateFile = True
    Dim oFSO: Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    With oFSO.OpenTextFile(sFullFilePath, iForWriting, bCreateFile)
        .Write sInputString
        .Close
    End With

    Const iHideWindow = 0, bWaitOnReturnTrue = True
    Dim sCommand: sCommand = "CMD /C TYPE " & sFullFilePath & "|CLIP"
    oShell.Run sCommand, iHideWindow, bWaitOnReturnTrue

    Set oShell = Nothing
    Set oFSO = Nothing

End Function

Sub Main

    Call CopyToClipboard( "Text1" & vbNewLine & "Text2" )

End Sub

Call Main

Answer 3

If it's just text can't you simply create a text file and read in the contents when you need it?

Another alternative and clearly a kludge, would be to use the SendKeys() method.