clipboard

A simple to use clipboard library, which supports:

• Setting text as the clipboard content
• Getting the clipboard content
• Clearing the clipboard

It binds to the libclipboard library: https://github.com/jtanx/libclipboard

Installation

1. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

   dependencies:
     clipboard:
       github: data-niklas/clipboard
   

2. Run shards install

Usage

require "clipboard"

success = Clipboard.set_text("Some text")
current_clipboard_text = Clipboard.get_text()
# Now clearing it
Clipboard.clear()

When setting the clipboard content:

• The program may not exit directly!
• Wait at least ~100 milliseconds before exiting
• Else get_text() will return the correct text, but Ctrl+V won't work
• The systems clipboard manager first needs to own / acquire the clipboard content!

Development

TODO: Write development instructions here

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/data-niklas/clipboard/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Niklas Loeser - creator and maintainer