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VB Forum / General / July 2008Access clipboard across network
With two networked machines directly in front of me I often find myself wanting to copy/paste between them (with respective keyboard/mouse). Even just to get text would be nice. Is something like that doable with the help of a little VB6 utility. It'd be handy ! Regards, Peter T Not easily, how about making a text file somewhere on the network and putting a shortcut to it on every machine you use, perhaps in the Quick Launch area if you enable it. You can then use the file as an intermediary step. If you want more than just text you could instead of a common shared file have a common shared folder. If you really want to do this in a program I guess one approach could be to write a clipboard monitor to live in the tool-tray, from there you can have a pop-up list of other PCs which you could send the clipboard content to. Every PC would have the same program running. Each program can either use a timer to check a central server to see if any other instances on other PC have copied some content there for it or it could use some clever network messaging to eliminate the timers. The central server could have a folder for each PC or the content file could have a header or a routing INI file to designate which PC needs the content. If you do go the program route it is not trivial, the clipboard can be a complex beast. Regards Dave O. > With two networked machines directly in front of me I often find myself > wanting to copy/paste between them (with respective keyboard/mouse). Even [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Regards, > Peter T Thanks Dave for your comments. I kind of new it wasn't going to be easy but just hoping! This is just something for my own needs, only two or three machines, all in front of me. I was wondering about something along the following lines: Say two machines Source and Destination In Source there's an app named appSrc in Destination there's an app named appDest (VB6 or perhaps a VBS) with a shortcut on the desktop. - In Source I copy in the normal way - In Destination I click the shortcut on my desktop to appDest - appDest calls appSrc in Source and waits until appSrc has terminated (I haven’t a clue if that’s possible) - appSrc gets text from the clipboard and writes to clip.txt in a shared folder - As appSrc terminates appDst reads the file (I suppose can read from the shared folder in Source) - appDest puts the text clip.txt from onto the clipboard in Destination and Kill’s the file - Now in Destination I can paste in the normal way Is something like that viable, or is it not possible for appDest to call appSrc Regards, Peter T > Not easily, how about making a text file somewhere on the network and > putting a shortcut to it on every machine you use, perhaps in the Quick [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> Regards, >> Peter T > Thanks Dave for your comments. I kind of new it wasn't going to be easy > but just hoping! [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Say two machines Source and Destination > In Source there's an app named appSrc <<snip>> Hi It looks like you have got a ready made solution for you with Johns Synergy thing so I'm not going to waste any time here redesigning a rotary transportation enabling device. If you find Synergy does not do what you need, come back and I'll have another go. Regards Dave O. "Dave O." wrote in message > Hi > It looks like you have got a ready made solution for you with Johns [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Regards > Dave O. Yes Synergy that John pointed to is amazing! Of course not as satisfying than making one's own little utility, or "rotary transportation enabling device" which does sound intriguing :-) Regards, Peter T > *From:* "Peter T" <peter_t@discussions> > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Regards, > Peter T Although it's not VB and is somewhat over the top for what you need, Synergy from http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ will do that. It's open source and released under the GNU Public License (GPL). Whether you can unpick how it works and re-write the clipboard part in VB is another matter. (The source is C++ and pretty extensive by the look of it.) Regards John (john@jeasonNoSpam.cix.co.uk) Remove the obvious to reply... > In article <uYhxTui8IHA.3724@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>, peter_t@discussions > (Peter T) [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Regards > John (john@jeasonNoSpam.cix.co.uk) Remove the obvious to reply... That looks very interesting indeed! Looks like it does what I want and a lot more too. I wonder if I really need to unpick the C++, perhaps I can just compile and use it as is. I will certainly look into it. Thanks for the link John. Regards, Peter T >> *From:* "Peter T" <peter_t@discussions> >> [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > Regards > John (john@jeasonNoSpam.cix.co.uk) Remove the obvious to reply... It's available compiled, so I simply obtained and ran the "SynergyInstaller-1.3.1.exe" setup on both machines. Slight misread the instructions but eventually got it all working (had to allow firewall to unblock). And now the feedback - incredible! In effect just need one keyboard and mouse to control 2+ machines. Eg, - move the mouse off the server screen to the left and it jumps into the monitor to the left (ie another machine) - work in that machine, do any type of task as normal, incl copy - move mouse off screen to the right and back into the server screen - paste Or, work with the Networked machine & keyboard, put something in the clipboard, move the server mouse briefly into the network monitor and back again, paste into an app in the server. In a very light test it seems to work very well. Thanks again Peter T > *From:* "Peter T" <peter_t@discussions> > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > In a very light test it seems to work very well. Thanks again > Peter T You're welcome. It's good innit! :^) It was a little fragile when I tried it between a W95 and XP box, but that may have been because of all the other junk I had running at the same time... Regards John (john@jeasonNoSpam.cix.co.uk) Remove the obvious to reply... > In article <OuIaask8IHA.4820@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, peter_t@discussions > (Peter T) > wrote: <snip> >> And now the feedback - incredible! >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Regards > John (john@jeasonNoSpam.cix.co.uk) Remove the obvious to reply... No problems (yet) between my W98se & XP server, have yet to link to a Vista which is not listed as a supported OS. Have configured it to reduce accidental jump into another monitor/system to a minimum. Eg restrict to 10-90% of screen height so as not to jump near top & bottom corners, perhaps add a slight delay or choose the "double-nudge" option. When I'm a little more confident perhaps I'll get rid of the now redundant keyboard & mouse on one machine, should free up some space. I'm rather pleased I asked about this <g> Regards, Peter T > No problems (yet) between my W98se & XP server, have yet to link to > a Vista which is not listed as a supported OS. There are a few threads about running it under Vista in the Synergy Open Discussion forum at http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=199579 Regards John (john@jeasonNoSpam.cix.co.uk) Remove the obvious to reply... "John K.Eason" <john@jeasonNoSpam.cix.co.uk> wrote in message > > No problems (yet) between my W98se & XP server, have yet to link to > > a Vista which is not listed as a supported OS. > > There are a few threads about running it under Vista in the Synergy Open > Discussion forum at http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=199579 Overall these suggest it will probably work with Vista but might need some messing around. Not sure I'll find though out as I cannot even connect my Vista to the XP. No doubt a simple thing (vaguely suspect a Norton and/or firewall issue) but I've spent so long trying to figure it (and other things) it's not worth spending any more time on )-: Just hope my memory stick won't wear out! As for this Synergy thing I am ever more impressed with it, now got hotkeys set up to switch systems :-) Regards, Peter T "Peter T" wrote in message > Not sure I'll find though out as ?? Not sure I'll find out though out as |
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