Showing posts with label utility program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label utility program. Show all posts

11 April 2013

Multiple Clipboards?

One on the useful concepts that MS users use every day is the Copy (Ctl+C) Paste (Ctl+V) features. They are very useful for getting small snippets of data from one location - file/website/program/etc. to another. People who use them regularly, don't need to be told this.

However, I have often found having a single Clipboard area falls short when having to switch between 3 or 4 values. Like doing things on the internet with - User Ids, passwords, e-mail addresses, etc.
Up until now I have put the required text into tools like EditPadPro/Wordpad/etc. when switching frequently  between values.

Doing HMRC file submissions over the last several days, has made me think about improving on this approach.  Why not write a small VFP App to hold - lets say 9 different texts - that can be updated from or to the Clipboard with only a single mouse click.

Well that's what I've done see picture.  First select a text value (turns yellow) then click the small arrows on the left shaded green to place the current contents into the chosen text field - thereby saving it. To place a text string into the Clipboard - select the value before clicking the red arrows on the right. Simple really. And I'm finding it very useful.