From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-08-31T07:09:38+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby and clipboard contents

Lyle Johnson wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> 
>> I'm experimenting with FXRuby, and would like to grab the contents of
>> whatever is on the clipboard and put it in a text box.  I'm developing
>> on windows, and based on what I've found searching around it seems
>> like I might have to do some OLE-integration api calls.
>>
>> That's a little disappointing - is there a way to access the contents
>> of the clipboard in a portable way?
> 
> 
> If I understand what you want to do, FXRuby's FXText and FXTextField 
> widgets already support pasting from the Windows clipboard out of the 
> box. For example, try starting up one of the FXRuby example programs 
> with a text field (maybe the splitter.rb example), then cut or copy some 
> text out of some other Windows application (say, NOTEPAD). Then click in 
> the FXRuby text field and press Ctrl+V (for paste). Note that you can 
> also go the other way (using Ctrl+C or Ctrl+X to copy or cut from an 
> FXRuby text widget onto the Windows clipboard).

My impression was that he wanted to do it "programmatically" without
doing a paste, e.g.,

   text = FXfoobarWindowsStuff.clipboard.get      # or whatever
   FXfoobarWindowsStuff.clipboard.copy("Hello!")  # "Hello!" into clipbd

I've also been interested in this but have never asked.

Hal