MenuClip

MenuClip is a menu-based clipboard manager written by takanuva15 in AutoHotkey. (Tested on Windows 10 with AHK v1.1.32.00)

When you press a hotkey, a small context menu will show up that indicates the last x things that were copied to your clipboard.

This project is in maintenance mode. No new features will be added; bugs may be fixed depending on bug severity and as time permits. (Please check the issue tracker to see if your bug was already raised)

Demo:

Dark theme:

Features:

Stores text clips into memory (doesn't support images or files)
Displays stored clips in a context menu via Ctrl+Shift+V
Stores 100 clips by default. (Afterwards, it will delete the oldest one and insert the newest clip at the top)
Has configurable options (eg shortcut, number of clips to store, gui size)
Can specify editors that use Shift+Insert for pasting instead of Ctrl+V
Has a dark theme option (can be automatically swapped in at a specified time)
Saves clips to file so that they are restored when the script is restarted
Has a search box to filter clips list

How to Run

Download a zip file of the latest release.
Extract it to a directory named "MenuClip" wherever you store your scripts.
Double click on main.ahk to run it.

Configuring the Script

The configuration can be edited by right-clicking on MenuClip's system tray icon and selecting the Edit Configuration option. (Alternatively, you can directly edit the config.ini file, which is generated when you run the script for the first time.) Note:

When changing the shortcut to open the menu, you must use the AHK shortcut syntax (see here for a glossary). Example: To use CapsLock + f as the hotkey, you should write CapsLock & f for the hotkey config option.
To add a certain editor to the "Shift+Insert pasting" list, add its exe filename to the Shift Ins paste list. (You must comma-separate each exe. eg: mintty.exe,runemacs.exe Do not use newlines.)

Contributing

Please open up an issue if you see a bug. Depending on the situation, you can also make PRs, but check with me before starting work on a PR, especially if it is out-of-scope of this application. (eg a rotating clip-paste function which ClipJump already does, or something that assigns presets like this already does).

In addition, if you are not restricted from downloading & running exe files on your computer, you should just download Ditto which does the same thing with orders of magnitude more functionality. You can also download ClipClip for Windows. (If you're on a Mac, you can download ClipMenu which has the same essential features)

Random: I tried my best to structure the code OO-style.

Notes

A similar application was posted on the AutoHotkey forum by spg SCOTT. It also fulfills the purpose of a context-based clipboard manager.

You can check out the Trello board for tracking stories on the project here. If you have an issue or bug, feel free to post it on GitHub.

You can view a UML diagram of the application here. (Note: UML will occasionally be out-of-date)

Credits

This program was developed in AHK Studio.

Special thanks to the people who've helped me with coding obstacles by answering my questions on the AutoHotkey forums. You can see my various questions and people's responses here.

I used the following libraries for this script:

Class_CtlColors.ahk
Class_ImageButton.ahk
Misc listbox functions combined together in Class_LB_Functions.ahk. Please see the comments within the file for relevant links.
Misc gui functions combined together in Gui_Functions.ahk. Please see the comments within the file for relevant links.

Please note that library files may not be covered under the MIT license. If such is the case, a comment will be placed at the top of the library file indicating its status.

DelPyth/MenuClip