On 31/07/2021 7:33 AM, tastyminerals wrote:
> I made a GUI app using tkd library. I am reading the string from one of the app widgets and would like to put it into the clipboard. Does anyone have an idea how to copy a string to the clipboard in D?

copyText on a Text widget appears to do what you want.

https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd/blob/9ca40d117649bb9a9db108d8f92e92870b9dc77e/source/tkd/widget/text.d#L477

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/tk_textCopy

On Friday, 30 July 2021 at 20:01:09 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
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> On 31/07/2021 7:33 AM, tastyminerals wrote:
>> I made a GUI app using tkd library. I am reading the string from one of the app widgets and would like to put it into the clipboard. Does anyone have an idea how to copy a string to the clipboard in D?
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> copyText on a Text widget appears to do what you want.
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> https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd/blob/9ca40d117649bb9a9db108d8f92e92870b9dc77e/source/tkd/widget/text.d#L477
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> https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/tk_textCopy

The problem is that I don't use Text widget but retrieve the string from TreeView widget which only has getSelectedRows method. So I thought there may be a way in D to communicate with the system clipboard...

On 01/08/2021 6:30 AM, tastyminerals wrote:
> So I thought there may be a way in D to communicate with the system clipboard...

No, this requires a windowing library and yes a window to do it (depending on the windowing system and even the desktop environment).

On Saturday, 31 July 2021 at 18:30:47 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:
> So I thought there may be a way in D to communicate with the system clipboard...

You can always call the same system functions from D that you'd use from C.

This is the source to my simpledisplay.d library on its clipboard function:

https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/blob/master/simpledisplay.d#L5279

The Windows side isn't too bad, the linux side a bit more complicated. Generally window libs offer something for this but idk about the one you're using.