What is this?
tool_clip is not a standalone program but an extension to Mr.
Tomoaki's great CLCL clipboard tool (newest release and sourcecode: https://github.com/wilfz/CLCL).
Currently it contains the following features for clipboard items:
- Replace tabstops and/or sequences of spaces by a character string of
choice
- Replace with regular expressions
- Export items and template folders to json file
- Import text items and folders from json file and merge them into
template folders
- Export to and import from the Android app Clipper
/ Clipper+
- Run External Program
- Convert tab separated data into an html table snippet, ready to
insert into an email, OneNote, etc.
- Macros, insert templates with expanded variables
- Send menu item to clipboard
- Show currently selected item in viewer
- Save CLCL templates to and load from an ODBC database
To be continued ...
Installation:
- Close any active CLCL instance.
- Copy
tool_clip.dll (preferably) into the CLCL folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\CLCL or alternatively install with
setup_too_clip.exe.
Features
Macros
The new feature of macros (insertion of template with expanded
environment variables, date, time, etc.) is not as self-explaining as
most other features in this plugin and needs some explanation:
Configuration:
- Start CLCL and open the options.
- Go to the
Tools tab, and click the Add
button.
- Add the
tool_clip.dll and select the "Expand Macro"
(expand_envvar) function
- In
Command line add the name of your macro folder e.g.
Macros.
- If you want to access your macros easily, you can set a hotkey, e.g.
Alt-M.
- You can also add the Macro tool to any menu of your choice in the
Action tab.
- Open CLCL viewer and select the
Template node.
- Add a folder in the first tier below the
Template node
with the name from above, e.g. Macros.
It is
essential, that the folder bears the exact name
(case-sensitive) as specified in command line of the tool
and is located directly in Templates and not in any
subfolder.
- Now you are ready to create your macros as items with
Unicode format in that folder.
- Text macros can contain any environment variable, enclosed in
percent symbols, e.g.
%USERNAME%,
%COMPUTERNAME% etc.
%DATE%, and %TIME% will be expanded
according to your locale settings, but format can be specified
explicitly behind a colon, but within the percent brackets.
Format must conform to Microsoft's date
specification and time
specification, e.g. %DATE:dddd, d MMMM, yyyy% or
%TIME:hh:mm:ss%
Usage:
- While editing text, invoke the
Tools popup menu, and
choose Expand Macro.
A new popup menu
will appear that contains the items of your Macros
folder.
- Choose a macro, and it will immediately be expanded and inserted at
your current text cursor position.
- If you configured a hotkey, e.g.
Alt-M you can use that
as a shortcut to the Macros popup menu.
- If your macro contains
%CLIPBOARD% this will be
expanded to the content of your clipboard prior to invocation of the
popup menu. But attention: Even if you cancel the action without
choosing from the popup, your clipboard content will be altered!
- If you invoke CLCL menu or a CLCL hotkey to insert an item
directly from templates or history, only the macro
variables
%DATE:{format}%, %TIME:{format}% and
%CLIPBOARD% within the item are always expanded before
pasting, no matter whether the item is located in the "Macros" folder or
anywhere else in templates or history.
To have this immediate expansion for ordinary environment variables as
well, set expand_all=1 in section [Macros] of
configuration file tool_clip.ini:
The drawback however is, that so it is not possible anymore to insert
environment variables literally (without expanding) from
templates.
You can avoid this "immediate expansion" completely, even for the
special macro variables mentioned above, just uncheck "When data is sent
to clipboard" in the tool's configuration.
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