From: Alex Fenton <alex@...>
Date: 2008-10-10T22:52:39+09:00
Subject: Re: how to copy data to clipboard

Li Chen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to send the  word "copy" to the clipboard  and trigger an event
> like ctrl-c. which gem/library is used for this purpose?

It depends what platform you're using.

For Win32 only, I'd expect you could use Win32API to do this, though 
I've no idea what API call you'd need.

For OS X only, I'd look into Ruby-Cocoa or MacRuby. Again, I don't know 
the specific API call needed.

For Linux/GTK only, try GTK-Ruby. Although GTK is meant to be somewhat 
cross-platform, I remember reading somewhere that clipboard functions 
don't work on Windows. This bug may be fixed now, however.

For a cross-platform solution, try one of the cross-platform toolkits, 
either QT, FxRuby or wxRuby. With wxRuby, you would use the 
Wx::Clipboard and Wx::TextDataObject classes.

a