Copy Listbox Contents with LF delimiters Instead of Tabs?

pmroz

If I copy the highlighted contents of a listbox I get a tab-delimited string.  However I want each selected entry to be on its own line.

nw = new window("test",
	lb = list box({"AAAAA", "BBBBB", "CCCCC", "DDDDD"}, width(100), 
		max selected(-1),
		nlines(8)
	)
);

If I highlight the last three entries and right-click copy

I get this string:

BBBBB	CCCCC	DDDDD

What I want is this:

BBBBB
CCCCC
DDDDD

I can create my own "Copy to Clipboard" button that will do the conversion, but is there an easier way?

gzmorgan0

@pmroz ,

Your solution is not so bad, except for management of button box and listbox. However, you could use relative object references: each Copy Button and ListBox are nested in a VListBox Container and for the ButtonBox, use <<Set Function(Function({this}...)) where the listbox can be referenced as  (this << sib) << get selected, etc. A script example called Copy_ButtonBoxSib.jsl is attached.  This is likely not new to you, just here as an FYI to others on the Community Blog.

 

A ListBox() has an option to <<Set Context Script(). With a context menu script, the copy button is not required.

 

I have not figured out if there is a method to reference itself in the menu script. Here is a simple script with 3 ListBox with a context menu script to copy:

• Select items
• Right click in the ListBox, Copy will appear, select it.
• I placed a button to paste the text to test this

See the screenshot and script.

 

 

Names Default to Here(1);
lf = "\!N";

mylb =Function({usrlist}, {lb},
	lb = ListBox(usrlist, width(100), max selected(-1), nlines(8));
	lb
);

mycopy = Function({this}, {sel}, 
	sel = this << get selected;
	if(nitems(sel)>0, set clipboard(concat items(sel,lf)) )
);

mylist1 = {"AAAAA", "BBBBB", "CCCCC", "DDDDD"};
mylist2 = {"xxxxx", "yyyyy", "zzzzz", "wwwww"};
mylist3 = {"dog", "cat", "parrot", "hamster"};

lb1 = mylb(mylist1);
lb2 = mylb(mylist2);
lb3 = mylb(mylist3);
list_lb = {lb1, b2,lb3};

Names Default To Here( 1 );
New Window( "Example",
 VlistBox(
   HListbox(lb1,lb2,lb3),
   ButtonBox("show It", <<SetFunction(Function({this}, {cb},
   	  cb = get clipboard();
   	  (this<<sib) << Set Text(cb);
   ))),
   TextBox()
 )  

);

//I don't know how to specify "this" for Context Menu Script
//If there is a method, then the context menu script could be assigned 
//with the mylb() function
lb1 << Set Context Menu Script( {"Copy", mycopy(lb1)} );
lb2 << Set Context Menu Script( {"Copy", mycopy(lb2)} );
lb3 << Set Context Menu Script( {"Copy", mycopy(lb3)} );

Copy_ContextMenuScript.jsl

Copy_ButtonBoxSib.jsl