Calling Keyboard Shortcuts?

[Anonymous]

Is there anyway in visual basic to call keyboard shortcuts, for instance if i wanted to create a Copy Button, is there anyway to simply program the code to input "ctrl + c" to call the copy command within autocad? Thanks for any help in advance!

[Anonymous]

i don't have an answer to your question, however the clipboard object is accessible for example:

Dim objClip As New DataObject
Dim myText as String
objClip.SetText myText
objClip.PutInClipboard

[Anonymous]

AutoHotkey is a useful program for easily mapping keys

[Anonymous]

"ctrl+c" calls the copyclip command which create a temp drawing in your temp directory -
next time you call copyclip the last temp dwg gets deleted and a new one is created. If you
want to copy an entitiy within the drawing use the entity's copy method - if you need to copy
object to another drawing you could use the CopyObjects method.

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Is there anyway in visual basic to call keyboard shortcuts, for instance if i wanted to create a Copy Button, is there anyway to
simply program the code to input "ctrl + c" to call the copy command within autocad? Thanks for any help in advance!

[Anonymous]

"Sendkeys" maybe?

[dgorsman]

Keep in mind, not all users will have the same set-up - you cannot guarantee that cntrl-c will *always* invoke the same command.