Hi all.

I've been spending som time now, looking for documentation on how to utilize the clipboard, but so far I have had no luck.

Does anyone know of a page that has a short introduction/tutorial, preferably something that will work cross-platform wise.

Kind regards,
Torsten Bonde Christiansen.

Torsten Bonde Christiansen wrote

Does anyone know of a page that has a short introduction/tutorial, preferably something that will work cross-platform wise.

What GUI toolkit are you using and what platform? Or is it a console based application, which normally means the clipboard only functions inside your own application.

For example, the X11 (X-Window on unix type OSes) clipboard functions totally different to the Windows clipboard.

Regards,
- Graeme -

GUI application and preferably every possible combination.

I'm creating a cross-platform application that in some part of the program should be able to access the clipboard and read data as text only.

But from your answer if guess there is no single (simple) way to do this?

Regards,
Torsten.

Torsten Bonde Christiansen wrote

But from your answer if guess there is no single (simple) way to do this?

No, various toolkits all handle the clipboard in different was. So you need to create an abstraction layer that wraps the various platforms you want to support into a common API - which your application will use. You can take a look at fpGUI Toolkit (url shown below) or MSEgui to see how it is done. Both these GUI toolkits support X11 and Windows clipboards.

Regards,
- Graeme -

If you use Lazarus (or at least the LCL) it has a unit Clipbrd

and you can do
    Clipboard.AsText:= FText;

Martin