Cannot open clipboard: Access Denied

dafe · Post by **dafe** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:51 am

Howdy all,

I'm currently receiving the error - Cannot open clipboard: Access denied in one of my scripts which uses the clipboard twice (both copying to, and extracting to a variable) inside an endless loop.

A check of the log clearly shows this happening on my first getclipboard> command in the loop, although it will happily loop anywhere from a few times, to several hundred times before it happens.

I've found an older post hailing back to ver. 9 of MS, however I am up to date using 11.1.07

Has anyone else experienced this error or is able to give any advice?

Cheers!

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:32 am

Since you are accessing the clipboard in quick succession you may be trying to access it too quickly. Are you using WaitClipBoard to make sure the clipboard is ready before each GetClipBoard?

dafe · Post by **dafe** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:16 am

admittedly no.. in fact, somehow i managed to competely pass over that command

at least it was a simple fix!