From: Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>
Date: 2010-08-10T04:35:22+09:00
Subject: Re: place string into paste buffer?

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Gordon,


Monday, August 9, 2010, 11:15:31 AM, you wrote:

GT> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:

>> How can I copy a string to Windows paste buffer.

>> A google search of
>>  ruby "paste buffer"
>> seems not to have anything relevant.

>> Oh ... and is there a way to suck information out of the paste buffer in
>> Ruby?


GT> You might also look at win32-clipboard

GT> http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/85/1694/README.html


Gordon, may the blessings of all the gods of all religions fall upon your house and your family.

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To those who have trouble getting the example (full example below) to work, try adding
  require 'rubygems'
before
  require "win32/clipboard"


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##########################################################################
# clipboard_test.rb (win32-clipboard)
#
# Generic test script for those without Test::Unit installed, or for
# general futzing. You can run this example via the 'rake example' task.
##########################################################################
require 'rubygems'    # Ad this to stop -- require "win32/clipboard" -- from complaining
require "win32/clipboard"
require "pp"
include Win32

puts "VERSION: " + Clipboard::VERSION

pp Clipboard.formats
pp Clipboard.data(Clipboard::UNICODETEXT)
pp Clipboard.format_available?(49161)
pp Clipboard.format_name(999999999)
pp Clipboard.format_available?(9999999)

puts "Data was: [" + Clipboard.data + "]"

Clipboard.set_data("foobar")

puts "Data is now: [" + Clipboard.data + "]"

puts "Number of available formats: " + Clipboard.num_formats.to_s

# Clipboard.empty

# puts "Clipboard emptied"
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