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Re: Accessing the Windows clipboard
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: George <d1945 at sbcglobal dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:54:40 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Accessing the Windows clipboard
- References: <20041110061134.GA3092@home>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, George wrote:
> Aside from the 'putclip' and 'getclip' utilities, or making use of
> '/dev/clipboard', I'm wondering if there are other approaches.
You can also use pure Win32 API calls.
> Accessing bitmaps, for example, doesn't quite work as expected.
Yep. For now clipboard access in Cygwin is text-only.
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
Igor
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