Module clipboard_win::raw

Raw bindings to Windows clipboard.

General information

All pre & post conditions are stated in description of functions.

Open clipboard

To access any information inside clipboard it is necessary to open it by means of open().

After that Clipboard cannot be opened any more until close() is called.

Structs

EnumFormats

Enumerator over available clipboard formats.

Functions

close

Closes clipboard.

count_formats

Retrieves number of currently available formats on clipboard.

empty

Empties clipboard.

format_name

Returns format name based on it’s code.

format_name_big

Returns format name based on it’s code (allocating variant suitable for big names)

get

Copies raw bytes from clipboard with specified format

get_bitmap

Reads bitmap image, appending image to the out vector and returning number of bytes read on success.

get_clipboard_data

Retrieves raw pointer to clipboard data.

get_file_list

Retrieves file list from clipboard, appending each element to the provided storage.

get_owner

Retrieves the window handle of the current owner of the clipboard.

get_string

Copies raw bytes from clipboard with specified format, appending to out buffer.

get_vec

Copies raw bytes from clipboard with specified format, appending to out buffer.

is_format_avail

Determines whenever provided clipboard format is available on clipboard or not.

open

Opens clipboard.

open_for

Opens clipboard associating it with specified window handle.

register_format

Registers a new clipboard format with specified name.

register_raw_format^⚠

Registers a new clipboard format with specified name as C wide string (meaning it must have null char at the end).

seq_num

Retrieves clipboard sequence number.

set

Copies raw bytes onto clipboard with specified format, returning whether it was successful.

set_bitmap

Sets bitmap (header + RGB) onto clipboard, from raw bytes.

set_file_list

Set list of file paths to clipboard.

set_string

Copies unicode string onto clipboard, performing necessary conversions, returning true on success.

set_without_clear

Copies raw bytes onto the clipboard with the specified format, returning whether it was successful.

size

Retrieves size of clipboard data for specified format.

size_unsafe^⚠

Retrieves size of clipboard data for specified format.