Clipboard issues, old data isn't cleared, encoding problems

[Victor]

Hi.

I ran across an issue (it occurs in about 1 out of 30 trials) where old data gets passed from the clipboard to the paste function.

Code:
        tripleClick(Pattern("1392988992662.png").targetOffset(70,2))
        type("c", KEY_CTRL)
        adress = Env.getClipboard().encode('iso-8859-15').strip()

and paste part... about 350 SLOC later:
        paste(u"V\xC4GD 1")

For some reason it picks a random object from the clipboard (and sometimes its not even the last copied item either...)

And why am I doin it this way? Well, its because special characters (like ÅÄÖ) arent very popular and cant be written using the type() function. But paste(u"") works.

Is this a problem in SikuliX or the Clipboard or somewhere else?

Machine = Win7 Pro SP1

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

There are some known issues with paste.

In this case, you could try to guard your paste this way:

pasteText = u"V\xC4GD 1"
paste(pasteText)
if pasteText != Env.getClipboard().encode('iso-8859-15'):
    print "some error message"
    exit(1)

BTW:
the IDE editor window accepts utf-8 characters produced by your keyboard and shows them as such.
Python at script run is told, that the script is encoded in utf-8

So you could use:
pasteText = u"VÄGD 1"

… and why are you not completely working in utf-8?

[Victor (victor1986)]

I tried it. This is the result

My code:

    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    import locale <-- tried without this as well
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') <-- tried without this as well

    def tripleClick(PSMRL):
        hover(PSMRL)
        for x in xrange(3):
            mouseDown(Button.LEFT)
            mouseUp()

    tripleClick("1399632526648.png")

    type("c", KEY_CTRL)
    testString = Env.getClipboard().encode('utf-8').strip()
    popup(str(testString))

String:
    ÅÄÖåäö with UTF-8 encoding
    ÅÄÖåäö with ISO encoding

If there is a simpler way to do this I'm all ears. :) Im just new to Java and Python

[Victor (victor1986)]

Thanks for the tip on the clipboard validation. Since I dont take no for an answer in my script I would place it i a loop.

x = 3
while x > 2
    pasteText = u"V\xC4GD 1"
    paste(pasteText)
    if pasteText != Env.getClipboard().encode('iso-8859-15'):
        x = x
        deleteFieldContents #function for just looping backspace a set number of times
    else:
        x = 1

Its not the prettiest solution but it, and similar fixes, works wonders ;)

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
is not needed in scripts run with Sikuli, since this is added automatically at runtime

Other things I admit, are not documented yet:

popup() finally takes the text as unicode string. Since from clipboard it is returned as unicode string already from the Java level, this should work in your case:

# any code, that puts "ÄÖÜäöü" on the clipboard (I am on a german keyboard, tested on Mac ;-)
text = Env.getClipboard()
popup(text)

should show up as expected
print text should complain non-ASCII

print text.encode("utf-8") # works on command line
but prints question marks to the IDE's message area (has to be fixed)

there is a helper:
uprint(text) internally does the encoding to UTF-8
and can be used the same way as print

Another quirk:
popup("ÄÖÜäöü") does not work

but this works:
popup(unicode("ÄÖÜäöü", "utf-8"))

and again there is a helper:
popup(unicd("ÄÖÜäöü"))

conclusion:
just staying with utf-8 should work.

Strings, that are generated on the script level (like text = "ÄÖÜäöü") have to be unicode strings when given down to the Java layer (like with popup()) and hence to be converted using unicode(string, "utf-8") (helper: unicd() )

[Victor (victor1986)]

Wow. That was awesome!

It totally works.

Why did I try it the hard way? :(

Thank you very much.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

Thanks for feedback.

… and for trying the hard way (how should you have known - not in the docs yet ;-)

… but asking here at an early stage of trying something is always a good idea (there are no stupid questions - only stupid answers ;-)