Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:54:40 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: George cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Accessing the Windows clipboard In-Reply-To: <20041110061134.GA3092@home> Message-ID: References: <20041110061134 DOT GA3092 AT home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 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. . Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/