Hi,

I've got a text program I'm working on. It has game like print. But I want to be able to copy to the clip board and paste from it in my program etc. I'm using Windows 7. I have used a bit of Ubuntu in the past.

- Joelcnz

Well, it doesn't matter what you've used in the past :-)

Take a look:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms907128.aspx

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Joel Christensen <joelcnz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a text program I'm working on. It has game like print. But I want to be able to copy to the clip board and paste from it in my program etc. I'm using Windows 7. I have used a bit of Ubuntu in the past.
>
> - Joelcnz
>

Thanks for the reply Jimmy.

I was thinking more like SDL (has SDL_GetClipboardText, SDL_SetClipboardText, http://wiki.libsdl.org/moin.cgi/CategoryClipboard). I'm not sure I would be able to get Windows CE Clipboard stuff working for me.

- Joelcnz

On 12-Sep-11 1:23 PM, Jimmy Cao wrote:
> Well, it doesn't matter what you've used in the past :-)
>
> Take a look:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms907128.aspx
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Joel Christensen <joelcnz@gmail.com
> <mailto:joelcnz@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I've got a text program I'm working on. It has game like print. But
>     I want to be able to copy to the clip board and paste from it in my
>     program etc. I'm using Windows 7. I have used a bit of Ubuntu in the
>     past.
>
>     - Joelcnz
>
>

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:39:52 +0300, Joel Christensen <joelcnz@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure I would be able to get Windows CE Clipboard stuff working for me.

Search engines often return Windows CE results for API searches.

Here's the clipboard developer documentation for full Windows versions:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms648709(v=VS.85).aspx

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 Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir@thecybershadow.net

So how would I got about doing it in D?

On 12-Sep-11 1:52 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:39:52 +0300, Joel Christensen <joelcnz@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure I would be able to get Windows CE Clipboard stuff working
>> for me.
>
> Search engines often return Windows CE results for API searches.
>
> Here's the clipboard developer documentation for full Windows versions:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms648709(v=VS.85).aspx
>

Here's an example I've quickly put together for you:

import std.stdio;
import core.stdc.string;

extern(Windows) {
    void* GetClipboardData(uint);
    bool OpenClipboard(void*);
}

void main() {
    if (OpenClipboard(null)) {
        auto cstr = cast(char*)GetClipboardData(1);
        if (cstr)
            writeln(std.conv.to!string(cast(char*)cstr[0..strlen(cstr)]));
    }
}



On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Joel Christensen <joelcnz@gmail.com> wrote:

> So how would I got about doing it in D?
>
>
> On 12-Sep-11 1:52 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:39:52 +0300, Joel Christensen <joelcnz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I'm not sure I would be able to get Windows CE Clipboard stuff working
>>> for me.
>>>
>>
>> Search engines often return Windows CE results for API searches.
>>
>> Here's the clipboard developer documentation for full Windows versions:
>>
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-**us/library/ms648709(v=VS.85).**aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms648709(v=VS.85).aspx>
>>
>>
>

Thanks Jimmy. Your example worked. Or though I haven't managed to get the other way to work.

[code]
import std.stdio;
//import core.stdc.string;
import std.c.string;
import std.string;
import std.conv;

extern(Windows) {
    bool OpenClipboard(void*);
    void* GetClipboardData(uint);
    void* SetClipboardData(uint, void*);
}

void main() {
    if (OpenClipboard(null)) {
        auto cstr = cast(char*)GetClipboardData( 1 );
        if (cstr)
            writeln(to!string(cast(char*)cstr[0..strlen(cstr)]));

		SetClipboardData( 1, cast(char*)toStringz( "data set" ) );
    }
}
[/code]

I mean, I can't copy text from my program to the clipboard.

- Joelcnz

On 12-Sep-11 3:50 PM, Joel Christensen wrote:
> Thanks Jimmy. Your example worked. Or though I haven't managed to get
> the other way to work.
>
> [code]
> import std.stdio;
> //import core.stdc.string;
> import std.c.string;
> import std.string;
> import std.conv;
>
> extern(Windows) {
> bool OpenClipboard(void*);
> void* GetClipboardData(uint);
> void* SetClipboardData(uint, void*);
> }
>
> void main() {
> if (OpenClipboard(null)) {
> auto cstr = cast(char*)GetClipboardData( 1 );
> if (cstr)
> writeln(to!string(cast(char*)cstr[0..strlen(cstr)]));
>
> SetClipboardData( 1, cast(char*)toStringz( "data set" ) );
> }
> }
> [/code]

The other way is a bit more complicated.
Try this:

import std.stdio;
import core.stdc.string;
import std.string;

extern(Windows) {
   bool OpenClipboard(void*);
   void* GetClipboardData(uint);
   void* SetClipboardData(uint, void*);
   bool EmptyClipboard();
   bool CloseClipboard();
   void* GlobalAlloc(uint, size_t);
   void* GlobalLock(void*);
   bool GlobalUnlock(void*);
}

void main() {
   if (OpenClipboard(null)) {
       auto cstr = cast(char*)GetClipboardData( 1 );
       if(cstr)
           writeln(cstr[0..strlen(cstr)]);
       EmptyClipboard();

       auto mystr = "my data";
       void* handle = GlobalAlloc(2, mystr.length + 1);
       void* ptr = GlobalLock(handle);
       memcpy(ptr, toStringz(mystr), mystr.length + 1);
       GlobalUnlock(handle);

       SetClipboardData( 1, handle);
       CloseClipboard();
   }
}



On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Joel Christensen <joelcnz@gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks Jimmy. Your example worked. Or though I haven't managed to get the other way to work.
>
> [code]
>
> import std.stdio;
> //import core.stdc.string;
> import std.c.string;
> import std.string;
> import std.conv;
>
> extern(Windows) {
>    bool OpenClipboard(void*);
>    void* GetClipboardData(uint);
>    void* SetClipboardData(uint, void*);
>
> }
>
> void main() {
>    if (OpenClipboard(null)) {
>        auto cstr = cast(char*)GetClipboardData( 1 );
>        if (cstr)
>            writeln(to!string(cast(char*)**cstr[0..strlen(cstr)]));
>
>                SetClipboardData( 1, cast(char*)toStringz( "data set" ) );
>    }
> }
> [/code]
>

Thanks so much Jimmy. You put in a bit of effort. :-)

I just added this code to my general library:

>>
extern(Windows) {
   bool OpenClipboard(void*);
   void* GetClipboardData(uint);
   void* SetClipboardData(uint, void*);
   bool EmptyClipboard();
   bool CloseClipboard();
   void* GlobalAlloc(uint, size_t);
   void* GlobalLock(void*);
   bool GlobalUnlock(void*);
}

string getTextClipBoard() {
   if (OpenClipboard(null)) {
	   scope( exit ) CloseClipboard();
       auto cstr = cast(char*)GetClipboardData( 1 );
       if(cstr)
           return cstr[0..strlen(cstr)].idup;
	}
	return null;
}

string setTextClipboard( string mystr ) {
	if (OpenClipboard(null)) {
		scope( exit ) CloseClipboard();
		EmptyClipboard();
		void* handle = GlobalAlloc(2, mystr.length + 1);
		void* ptr = GlobalLock(handle);
		memcpy(ptr, toStringz(mystr), mystr.length + 1);
		GlobalUnlock(handle);

		SetClipboardData( 1, handle);
	}
	return mystr;
}

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