About

ClipControl is a small tool to enhance the clipboard for the Windows NT line of OS' (Win2k and later).

Features:
* Capslock to ClipControl
• Clipboard history
• User buffers
• Quick commands like capitalize, indent and execute.
• Plugins that allows for customized functions
• Capslock deactivation

Capslock to ClipControl
ClipControl turns your capslock key into a clipboard control key. You can still enable capslock mode (ie all uppercase letters), but you need to use Capslock + enter instead of just capslock to (de)activate capslock.
With the clipboard control key, you can quickly do clipboard related task, paste any of the ten latest copies, popup a history window and alter the marked text. Read more below and in the docs for details.

Clipboard history
Every time you copy text it is automatically added to the clipboard history, so if you accidently copy something when you had something in the clipboard already, it is no longer lost! You can paste old entries with a simple keystroke, or use a popupmenu that displays the first few characters of every clip.

User buffers
Instead of just having one clipboard, you now have several. The new buffers can also be saved at exit, so the remain after you turn off/on the computer.

Quick commands
Quick commands works on any selected text in most programs. Just mark a text and press the shorcut keys to turn the text into uppercase, lowecase, indented and so on.

Plugins
The plugin architecture enables you to make your own extensions to ClipControl. Do you often need to turn spaces into underscores or something else that noone else would think of? Make a plugin for it and a lot of manual work can be saved!

Background

Development was started mainly because of the lack of functionality in Windows clipboard and because I'm sometimes forced to use low-quality texteditors without functions like blockindent, capitalization of marked area etc, etc. At the time the idea of the program arose, the Swedish computermagazine Datormagazin had a programming competition, which is probably why development has proceeded as quickly as it has.

ClipControl uses wxWidgets for it's userinterface. wxWidgets is a cross-platform framework and although the program (currently ;) is not cross-platform I needed to learn how to use it anyway. For further info on wxWidgets, see the wxWidgets website.