Re: Placing data on the clipbaord

"Overly literal"?!

Sorry if I was just stupid, but I thought he was asking how to do it from his IBM i program. If that was possible, I could certainly see how it'd be a great solution to his problem, and why he'd want to do it.

My point was very simple: He needs a program running on the PC where the clipboard is. And I wanted to be very clear that it wasn't a limitation of IBM i, the problem was simply that his program was running on a different computer, so it couldn't interact with the PC's clipboard.

Why is this such a controversial thing to say? Why am I getting flak for it?





On 10/9/2014 12:20 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

On 10/9/2014 1:01 PM, Thomas Garvey wrote:

I guess I wasn't clear that I am not talking about two different PC's
here ("they can have a PC user with a web browser into their order
processing application AND a green screen client running
simultaneously"). I guess I should have added "on the same PC".

I read the question the same way Scott did: 'Can my RPG program put data
into the Windows clipboard?' As a life long programmer, I'm
semi-trained to recognise when I'm being overly literal, so I
second-guessed myself and assumed that you really wanted to copy /
switch windows / paste; thus the Auto Hot Key suggestion.
--buck