Importing files from Clipboard?

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Fri, 08/22/2008 - 12:59 pm

Hi,

To date, I've been importing data from CSV and binary files placed in a given directory. To speed things up a bit, I would like to import the data from the clipboard in stead. It would be placed there by a client application. I have to import files very frequently.

Is there a way to effectively do the same thing as "FReadLine" and "Open", but from the clipboard in stead of from a specified filepath+filename?

I've been browsing through the Igor Manual, but haven't found anything.

Thanks
I know that it won't solve your problem right this moment, but I will be extending SOCKIT in the near future.
At the moment the SOCKIT plugin allows IGOR to act as a TCPIP client.
The extension I'm thinking of will allow IGOR to act as a TCPIP server.

But this won't be bugfree for a whiletfrdewq

August 22, 2008 at 05:12 pm - Permalink

No, Open and FReadLine can not read from the clipboard.

LoadWave can load from the clipboard (specify no symbolic path and "Clipboard" as the file name).

August 22, 2008 at 05:52 pm - Permalink

aclight wrote:
You're probably looking for the GetScrapText() function.


Thanks for your reply.

I noticed this, but didn't think it would work because in the manual it says the GetScrapText function returns a string containing any plain text on the Clipboard (aka “scrap”).

My problem is that I need to bring in a specifically-formatted CSV file and a specifically-formatted binary file. I can't just read them all in at once, and I don't think binary will work as plain text.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think that this is going to work.



August 25, 2008 at 06:12 am - Permalink

hrodstein wrote:
No, Open and FReadLine can not read from the clipboard.

LoadWave can load from the clipboard (specify no symbolic path and "Clipboard" as the file name).



Thanks - I got it going using LoadWave and then just did a lot of sscanf statements to parse the data.

I still haven't found a way to do binary though - is there any way to import binary information through the clipboard, or by any means faster than just reading from a binary file?

I need to read in a lot of data sets of binary data at rapid intervals, and am just trying to minimize the amount of time required to import it - it takes my client a more-than-ideal amount of time to export numerous large binary files too. It would be really nice if I could somehow transfer it (ideally through the clipboard) faster.

Thanks again

August 25, 2008 at 01:17 pm - Permalink

gseaborn wrote:
I still haven't found a way to do binary though - is there any way to import binary information through the clipboard, or by any means faster than just reading from a binary file?


I can't think of a way to do it through the clipboard or faster than through a file.

It may not be possible to improve it but I'd have to know the details of the source to say for sure.

August 25, 2008 at 06:32 pm - Permalink