How to Paste contents of the Windows clipboard into VC4 Visu using VNC?

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Dear Community,

During a development of some project we faced a need to input some 200~300 bytes of ASCII text (a string) from a Windows application (such as notepad) to a B&R controller which implements a VC4 visualization and is accessible on that Windows system via a VNC connection. Typing this much of text manually is not feasible. So, pasting a string from the clipboard is the only realistic possibility.

Could someone give me some clues or basic tips on how to implement this kind of idea? For example, is the Edit control and the Global Key Action Clipboard with mode Paste is the proper/best way to do this? Or is there another way?

I have studied the AS Help about the VC4 capabilities, but I couldn’t find a consistent guidance about this. I feel that it is not the most complicated issue to solve, yet I still could not find the relevant part of the VC4 technology to work with.
So, I would greatly appreciate if someone from the community could point me to some relevant details in the AS Help, B&R TM documents or elsewhere.

Thank you and Best Regards,
Alexander

PS. I do realize that the VC4 technology is not the latest & the greatest among B&R products, but I do not have a freedom of choice here. We need to stick with VC4 and VNC, upgrading to the mapp View 5.x or 6.x and web browser-based UI is not an option for us now.

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Hello Alexander,

While I’m not exactly sure how to implement what you’re aiming for, a basic workaround might be to use an AutoHotkey (AHK) script. You could create a script that can automatically type out a predefined string for you, so you wouldn’t have to enter it manually each time.

You would simply paste the desired string into the AHK script, and let it handle the typing. It might not be as fast as directly pasting the text into the Visualization, but it could still be a helpful alternative.

Best Regards,
Patrick

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Hello Patrick,

Thank you for a quick reply. What you are suggesting could be an acceptable workaround in certain cases.
But I would like to learn about the proper way to implement a Paste function using the VC4 and VNC.