Clipboard Transformations

Root documentation of this application at: Python Smart ClipBoard This page is the documentation for the details of the Transformations.

General

The application deals only with unformatted text in the clipboard. Images.... are not processed. Formatted text is converted ( irreversibly ) to unformatted text unless the off radio button is depressed before the selection is "clipped". You can ususally return to the unformatted, untransformed version of the clipboard by pressing either <off> or <unformatted>. If you press an unintended button, just go back and press the intended one.

A transformation takes in some text, typically multi-lined and converts it to something else, also possibly multi-lined. The transformed text is placed in the system clipboard and displayed in the application GUI. Each time a transformation button is pressed the original text in the clipboard is transformed. To apply a new transformation to the result of the last transformation press the <Chain> button. Once Chain is pressed the original clipped text is gone.

Transformations Do What

You can tell what each transformation does by:

• Hopefully each name is suggestive <CAP> capitalizes the text.
• The GUI documentation gives a somewhat expanded explanation of each transformation ClipBoard GUI
• Try them out, just do not "paste" results you do not like.
• More documentation here ?
• Read the code: cmd_processor.transform_{some suggestive name }

General Rules

Most transformations ( and perhaps all in the future ) do some general processing:

• Break the text into multiple lines using a variety of markers ( see Python splitlines ),
• Delete trailing spaces on each line
• Joins lines back using a standard line marker ( cmd_processor.line_join )

Individual Transformations

The GUI names should match those below, but use a bit of caution.