Separating copy to clipboard

I’m not sure why this isn’t working with a clipboard manager. Maybe it’s going too quickly pushing onto the clipboard. I use Pastebot and it has the same issue. I’ll have to do some digging. Maybe I need to create an artificial delay.

I got it working with following code, but using while() is not really elegant and just consumes CPU cycles

function sleep(delay) {
    var start = new Date().getTime();
    while (new Date().getTime() < start + delay);
}

function Add_To_Clipboard() {

	Utils.copyTextToClipboard("one");
	sleep(200);
	Utils.copyTextToClipboard("two");
	sleep(200);
	Utils.copyTextToClipboard("three");
	sleep(200);
	Utils.copyTextToClipboard("four");
}

Add_To_Clipboard();

When I use sleep(100), not all copies are recored. So the delay might depend on the performance of the target computer.

Re: Javascript, there is setTimeout(), but that’s part of DOM and not ECMAScript. Feature request: add Utils.setTimeout() and maybe Utils.clearTimeout() too. Then I could do

function sleep(ms) {
  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}

for (let i = 0; i < 5; i ++) {
  if (i === 3)
    await sleep(2000);
  console.log(i);
}

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by Daniel Leu.

So I was just speaking to my friend who wrote Pastebot and he informed me that when you put something on the clipboard, there’s a changeCount property that gets updated on the NSPasteboard generalPasteboard. Pastebot polls this property to see if it has changed and then it records the value onto their multi-item clipboard.

It’s possible the frequency of polling isn’t high enough to account for putting things on the clipboard as fast as Tap Forms can do it.

So it would seem that’s why adding these artificial delays allows it to work because the polling frequency is then within the artificial delay time.