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.

Features

• std - Enables usage of std, including std::error::Error trait.
• monitor - Enables code related to clipboard monitoring.

Clipboard

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

Usage

Getter

Library provides various extractors from clipboard to particular format using Getter:

• RawData - Reads raw bytes from specified format.
• Unicode - Reads unicode string from clipboard.
• Bitmap - Reads RGB data of image on clipboard.
• FileList - Reads list of files from clipboard.

Depending on format, getter can extract data into various data types.

Setter

Library provides various setters onto clipboard by using Setter:

• RawData - Writes raw bytes onto specified format.
• Unicode - Writes unicode string onto clipboard.
• Bitmap - Writes RGB data of image on clipboard.

Default setters are generic over type allowing anything that can be referenced as byte slice or str

Manually lock clipboard

use clipboard_win::{Clipboard, formats, Getter, Setter};

const SAMPLE: &str = "MY loli sample ^^";

let _clip = Clipboard::new_attempts(10).expect("Open clipboard");
formats::Unicode.write_clipboard(&SAMPLE).expect("Write sample");

let mut output = String::new();

assert_eq!(formats::Unicode.read_clipboard(&mut output).expect("Read sample"), SAMPLE.len());
assert_eq!(output, SAMPLE);

//Efficiently re-use buffer ;)
output.clear();
assert_eq!(formats::Unicode.read_clipboard(&mut output).expect("Read sample"), SAMPLE.len());
assert_eq!(output, SAMPLE);

//Or take the same string twice?
assert_eq!(formats::Unicode.read_clipboard(&mut output).expect("Read sample"), SAMPLE.len());
assert_eq!(format!("{0}{0}", SAMPLE), output);

Simplified API

use clipboard_win::{formats, get_clipboard, set_clipboard};

let text = "my sample ><";

set_clipboard(formats::Unicode, text).expect("To set clipboard");
//Type is necessary as string can be stored in various storages
let result: String = get_clipboard(formats::Unicode).expect("To set clipboard");
assert_eq!(result, text)

Re-exports

• pub use formats::Format;
• pub use monitor::Monitor;
• pub use raw::get_owner;
• pub use raw::empty;
• pub use raw::seq_num;
• pub use raw::size;
• pub use raw::is_format_avail;
• pub use raw::register_format;
• pub use raw::count_formats;
• pub use raw::EnumFormats;
• pub use formats::Unicode;

Modules

• formats
  Standard clipboard formats.
• monitor
  Clipboard monitoring utility
• raw
  Raw bindings to Windows clipboard.
• types
  WINAPI related types

Structs

• Clipboard
  Clipboard instance, which allows to perform clipboard ops.
• ErrorCode
  Describes error code of particular category.

Traits

• Getter
  Describes format getter, specifying data type as type param
• Setter
  Describes format setter, specifying data type as type param

Functions

• get
  Retrieve data from clipboard.
• get_clipboard
  Shortcut to retrieve data from clipboard.
• get_clipboard_string
  Shortcut to retrieve string from clipboard.
• set
  Set data onto clipboard.
• set_clipboard
  Shortcut to set data onto clipboard.
• set_clipboard_string
  Shortcut to set string onto clipboard.
• with_clipboard
  Runs provided callable with open clipboard, returning whether clipboard was open successfully.
• with_clipboard_attempts
  Runs provided callable with open clipboard, returning whether clipboard was open successfully.

Type Aliases

• SysResult
  Alias to result used by this crate