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Originally posted by lyttmonkey

when selecting a folder, and mouse gestures down, paste the contents of the clipboard to this folder

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Originally posted by breakcore

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Originally posted by lyttmonkey

when selecting a folder, and mouse gestures down, paste the contents of the clipboard to this folder

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acSendKeys("{ENTER}{Delay 300}^v{Delay 100}{BACKSPACE}")

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Originally posted by Rob

Without invoking the right-click menu on the folder, you cannot easily paste into it. Windows is handling that behind the scenes, when you right-click a folder and click Paste, it knows the folder you selected.

This could be accomplished programmatically, but I don't think you're likely to be successful via Lua (nor is it worth the effort, I'm sure). The only quick way I was able to emulate was by sending SHIFT+F10 (to bring up the right-click menu) and sending the appropriate number of arrow keys (or letter P) to select the Paste menu item, then send ENTER. However, it's not very reliable nor consistent as different selected items will invoke menus with slightly different options.

breakcore's solution is about as close as you'll get without getting very creative...and spending a lot of time for a small gain.

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D:\Programs\Cautomaton (0.9.0)\cautomaton32.exe /v Copy "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\Test.txt"

!^+#v::      ;; When you hit alt-control-shift-win-V, the commands below are triggered.
Sleep 500      ;; Remove this long sleep if the hotkey is triggered by a mouse gesture:
               ;; it should only be needed if you type the hotkey by hand.
Sleep 50
Send {control up}{alt up}{rwin up}{shift up}
ClipSave := ClipboardAll      ;; This saves whatever you have on your clipboard for later.
Clipboard := ""
  Send {control down}      ;; Copy (control-C) whichever item you have selected in order to get the path of a folder, if present.
  Sleep 50
  Send c
  Sleep 50 
  Send {control up}
FilePath := Clipboard      ;; Here we take the path of the selected item from the clipboard in order to analyse it (folder or not?).
FileGetAttrib, Attributes, %FilePath%
If Instr(Attributes, "D")     ;; If the selected item is a folder/directory, execute "paste" from the right-click menu, using Cautomaton.
{
	Clipboard := ClipSave
	Run, D:\Programs\Cautomaton (0.9.0)\cautomaton32.exe /v paste `"%FilePath%`", , Hide      ;; Replace the part before 
                                                                     ;; "cautomaton32.exe" with the location of your Cautomaton file.
}
Else      ;; Do normal paste action, control-V.
{
	Sleep 50
	Send {control down}
	Sleep 50
	Send v
	Sleep 50 
	Send {control up}
}
Sleep 100
Return