sys.clipboard | LuaRT free and open source Windows programming framework for Lua

sys.clipboard read/write property

Get or set data from/to the Windows clipboard.

Notes

This property returns nil if the clipboard is empty or if the kind of data is not compatible with LuaRT.

Getting clipboard data

Getting clipboard data will return a table with the following fields :

sys.clipboard.kind	sys.clipboard.content
`"text"`	`string`
`"files"`	`table` (list of File and Directory)
`"unknown"`	`nil`

Setting clipboard data

To set clipboard data, affect any of the following type of values to the property :

Set sys.clipboard with...	Clipboard format
`string`	`text`
`table` (list of File and Directory)	`Files/Directories`
`nil`	Empties the clipboard

Example


local clipboard = sys.clipboard
if not clipboard then
  print("Windows clipboard is empty")
else
  print("Clipboard contains "..clipboard.kind..":")
  if clipboard.kind == "files" then
      for entry in each(clipboard.content) do
          print("\t"..entry.fullpath)
      end
      sys.clipboard = nil
  else
      print("\t"..(clipboard.content or "nil"))
  end
end