RE: Getting Windows clipboard -- MIDRANGE-L

Thanks for your reply Brian,

I'll take a look at this.

The bigger picture here is that I'm geocoding addresses using a proprietary webservice based on Bing in a batch routine. For cases where the addresses were thrown out, we're having users go to Google maps to eyeball the location , potentially move the target to their desired position, then retrieve the coords from that position. There has to be an interactive visual component in that part of the process, but if I can eliminate any more using that Google webservice, then that'll help a lot.

David

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian May
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 1:30 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Getting Windows clipboard

Why not just call a webservice to geocode your address? Google has one here https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/

You could call this using something like HTTPAPI and avoid jumping through the hoops.

Brian May
IBM i Modernization Specialist
Profound Logic Software
http://www.profoundlogic.com
937-439-7925 Phone
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Baugh
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:49 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Getting Windows clipboard

I'm fighting with windows clipboard in an attempt to programmatically get the contents into my iSeries session.

Here's what I need to do:

In Google Maps, find an address, then hit a button on the website to 'copy link address'. This puts a string containing, amongst other things, GPS coordinates.

I want to get the contents of the clipboard into a string variable on the iSeries and manipulate it to get the GPS coordinates, then display them on the 5250 screen and ultimately write them to file.

I've got as far as writing a java class that resides on my windows network, which gets the contents of the clipboard into a string, strips out the coordinates and writes them back to the clipboard. This is being called using STRPCCMD. On the 5250 session, hitting paste then gives me gps coords.

This is far from ideal (and kinda clunky), since there's a disjoint between that program finishing execution and the 5250 session having access to the reconfigured contents of the clipboard.

If I can get the clipboard into a variable, I can handle the rest.

Does anyone have experience ?

Thanks in advance
David

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