Validating clipboard content

[Jon]

Hey guys,

Anyone know how to validate that the clipboard content is equal to a particular string?

Thanks
Jon

[Anthony]

Hello Jon,

Use the Clipboard Class. This is basic .NET code and not specific to Test Studio.

Kind regards,
Anthony
the Telerik team

[Jon]

Hi Anthony

The clipboard class doesn't work. I can only assume this is because the content is running in a MTU state, the clipboard function must be run in a STA thread. 

I did some research and found that the following code snippet should work, but doesn't in Test Studio...

//COM Voodoo
            IDataObject idat = null;
            Exception threadEx = null;
            Thread staThread = new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(
                delegate
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Thread Started");
                    try
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine("Grabbing IdataObj");
                        idat = Clipboard.GetDataObject();
                    }

                    catch (Exception ex)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine("Exception caught");
                        threadEx = ex;
                    }
                }));
            staThread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
            Console.WriteLine("Starting Thread");
            Console.WriteLine("Apartment State: {0}", staThread.GetApartmentState().ToString());
            staThread.Start();
            staThread.Join();


            var content = idat.GetData(DataFormats.Text);
            Console.WriteLine("Clipboard contents: {0}", content);
            Console.WriteLine("Press Any Key...");
            Console.ReadKey(false);

If you could take another look at this I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks Jon

[Anthony]

Hello Jon,

The following code works in our testing:

public string ClipboardMethod()
{
    string content = Clipboard.GetText();
    return content;
}

[CodedStep(@"New Coded Step")]
public void ClipboardTest_CodedStep()
{
    string content = string.Empty;

    var thread = new Thread(obj =>
    {
        content = this.ClipboardMethod();
    });

    thread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
    thread.Start();
    thread.Join();

    Log.WriteLine(content);
}

Kind regards,
Anthony
the Telerik team

[Jon]

Thanks Anthony that worked.

Cheers
Jon