Crate clipboard_win

This crate provide simple means to operate with Windows clipboard.

Note keeping Clipboard around:

In Windows Clipboard opens globally and only one application can set data onto format at the time.

Therefore as soon as operations are finished, user is advised to close Clipboard.

Clipboard

All read and write access to Windows clipboard requires user to open it.

For your convenience you can use Clipboard struct that opens it at creation and closes on its drop.

Alternatively you can access all functionality directly through raw module.

Below you can find examples of usage.

Empty clipboard

extern crate clipboard_win;

use clipboard_win::Clipboard;

fn main() {
    Clipboard::new().unwrap().empty();
}

Set and get raw data

extern crate clipboard_win;
use clipboard_win::formats;

use clipboard_win::Clipboard;

use std::str;

fn main() {
    let text = "For my waifu!\0"; //For text we need to pass C-like string
    Clipboard::new().unwrap().set(formats::CF_TEXT, text.as_bytes());

    let mut buffer = [0u8; 52];
    let result = Clipboard::new().unwrap().get(formats::CF_TEXT, &mut buffer).unwrap();
    assert_eq!(str::from_utf8(&buffer[..result]).unwrap(), text);
}

Set and get String

extern crate clipboard_win;
use clipboard_win::Clipboard;

use std::str;

fn main() {
    let text = "For my waifu!";
    Clipboard::new().unwrap().set_string(text);

    let result = Clipboard::new().unwrap().get_string().unwrap();
    assert_eq!(text, result);
}

Feature list

• utf16error - Uses non-lossy conversion from UTF-16 to UTF-8. On error returns io::error with kind InvalidData

Re-exports

pub use raw::register_format;

Modules

formats

Standard clipboard formats.

raw

Raw bindings to Windows clipboard.

Structs

Clipboard

Clipboard accessor.

Functions

get_clipboard_string

Shortcut to retrieve string from clipboard.

set_clipboard_string

Shortcut to set string onto clipboard.