Copy extent to clipboard

[AndreasRondorf]

I am not a developer, but I want to use a python script from a former colleague. Parts of the script clip the current extent in ArcMap to the clipboard. It works well iwthhin in Addin on my Virtual Machine. If I use the same script/addin on my notebook (with a differnt user though) in the companies network, it doesn´t work. Any ideas? How do I have to modify the script?

import arcpy
import pythonaddins
from Tkinter import Tk
import os

...

class XY_Kopieren(object):
    """Implementation for ToeB_addin.button (Button)"""
    def __init__(self):
        self.enabled = True
        self.checked = False
    def onClick(self):
        mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument('current')
        activeDataFrame = mxd.activeView
        df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd,"Layers")[0]
        xmin = df.extent.XMin
        xmax = df.extent.XMax
        ymin = df.extent.YMin
        ymax = df.extent.YMax
        r = Tk()
        r.withdraw()
        r.clipboard_clear()
        r.clipboard_append(str(xmin)[0:6] + ',' + str(ymin)[0:7] + ',' + str(xmax)[0:6] + ',' + str(ymax)[0:7])
        r.destroy()
        pythonaddins.MessageBox('Die Koordinaten des aktuellen Raumausschnittes wurden in die Zwischenablage kopiert.', 'INFO', 0)
        pass

@Jake Skinner () published a similar Add-In called Extent Python Add-In. It works well my has blank spaces between the coordinates and decimals in it. I would need the coordinates copied like 334736,5658853,417290,57118 to the clipboard to use it in a second application. Can I change an Add-In? If not. Can you @jskinner_CountySandbox help?

jskinner_CountySandbox

#python #copy results to clipboard‌ #clipboard #copy extent

[NeilAyres]

If you can read the code you can always copy it and write roll your own...

As regards the formatting of the extent coords you could do something like this :

ExtStr = "{:.0f},{:.0f},{:.0f},{:.0f}".format(XMin, YMin, XMax, YMax)‍

[AndreasRondorf]

Thank you, Neil, for your help. Unfortunaltely I have not been able to try your ideas until today. I try to change immediately in the extent.esriaddin from @Jake Skinner.

I changed in the fileextent.esriaddin 

from

        extent = rectangle_geometry
        newExtent = str(round(extent.XMin, 2)) + ", " + str(round(extent.YMin, 2)) + ", " + str(round(extent.XMax, 2)) + ", " + str(round(extent.YMax, 2))
        w.OpenClipboard()
        w.EmptyClipboard()
        w.SetClipboardData(w.CF_TEXT, newExtent.rstrip())
        w.CloseClipboard()
        print newExtent
        ##pythonaddins.MessageBox(newExtent, 'Extent', 0)

to
        newExtent = str(round(extent.XMin)) + "," + str(round(extent.YMin)) + "," + str(round(extent.XMax)) + "," +

But I don´t get a change. The numbers in the clipboard have still two decimals and a blank space.

If I try to install the esriaddin once again not through the addin-manager but rather by by doubleclick I get a meaasage "unable to open file". Any idea