Fill the clipboard with text and file (at the same time)

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#1

Hi,

I would like to be able to put into the clipboard some text and a picture (or any other kind of file).
Like you would get if you:

  • open a new textedit document
  • add some text
  • drag and drop an image in your document
  • select all
  • cut it

I don’t want to use TextEdit, just produce the same result. I would like to get this to work with any kind of file (picture, text file, archive, …).

So far, I have this, but I’m stuck.


set teststring to "abc"

tell application "Finder"
	set selectionList to {} & selection as list
	set testfile to first item of selectionList
end tell

set testcontainer to teststring & testfile

set the clipboard to testcontainer

This script set the clipboard to the string “abcSystem:private:tmp:Archive.zip”
I would like to have in the clipboard the string “abc” and the actual file.

Thank you for your help.

#2

Sounds like you’re trying to build an rtfd document in the clipboard. Isn’t going to happen – although you can copy the content of an rtfd and paste it back to a new one, the clipboard doesn’t understand concatination (adding parts).

Perhaps if you tell us what you want to accomplish we can suggest ways of getting there.

#3

My final goal is to be able to build a droplet, which, when receiving files, would copy them to the clipboard accompagned by some text.
Example:
If I drop an archive nammed try.zip on it, it would set the clipboard to:
File “try.zip”, size 1MB
and the actual file.

I would then be able to paste the clipboard value to a Mail.app message.
Note: I don’t want to build the message using Mail.app dictionary, as I might already be writing this message (and have set subject, body content, sig…) and didn’t find a way to interact using applescript with a message not created through applescript.

Thanks.