programmatic conversion of .txt to .cida (scrap container)

[amontillo]

Say I have several text files (.txt) with each one containing a few pathnames, one per line.

Is there a way to programmatically create one scrap (.cida) container for each .txt file?
I see that I can copy to the clipboard and import it via Actions | Import clipboard but was hoping for a way to convert the .txt's to .cida without manual typing.

I suppose I could record a macro to select the gui, but this seems rather messy – is there a better, cleaner way?

[snakebyte]

I think that you can use CIDA Structure to read or write .cida file.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx

Apart from filenames .cida files also contains scrap settings. I think Nikos should share the exact .cida file format details so that external tools could be written around it.

[BRX]

If anybody can come up with a procedure or helper application for this I'd be very interested, too..

[cprichard]

Count me in on this one too!

Craig Prichard
Technical Communicator
craig.prichard@gmail.com

[nikos]

a cida file is just a CIDA dumped on disk. It's not something that can be used by the casual user, only a programmer

[BRX]

Well, I guess I have to stick to the clipboard trick then.

FYI, you can kind of "convert" textfiles to cida and back using the import from clipboard function and/or copying the paths from the scrap pane and pasting it in a text file.