pseudogames / clip

Cross-platform C++ library to copy/paste clipboard content

Clip Library

Copyright (C) 2015-2016 David Capello

Distributed under MIT license

Library to copy/retrieve content to/from the clipboard/pasteboard.

Features

• Copy/paste UTF-8 text on Windows and OS X.
• Copy/paste RGB/RGBA images on Windows and OS X.
• Copy/paste user-defined data on Windows and OS X.

Example

#include "clip.h"
#include <iostream>

int main() {
  clip::set_text("Hello World");

  std::string value;
  clip::get_text(value);
  std::cout << value << "\n";
}

User-defined clipboard formats

#include "clip.h"

int main() {
  clip::format my_format =
    clip::register_format("com.appname.FormatName");

  int value = 32;

  clip::lock l;
  l.clear();
  l.set_data(clip::text_format(), "Alternative text for value 32");
  l.set_data(my_format, &value, sizeof(int));
}

• Limited number of clipboard formats on Windows

To-do

• Support Linux (GTK? KDE? X11?) clipboard
• Add support to copy/paste images on Linux
• Add support to copy/paste user-defined formats on Linux