syrel/copypasta

Cross-platform Rust system clipboard library

copypasta

copypasta is a rust-clipboard fork, adding support for the Wayland clipboard.

rust-clipboard is a cross-platform library for getting and setting the contents of the OS-level clipboard.

Example

extern crate copypasta;

use copypasta::{ClipboardContext, ClipboardProvider};

fn main() {
    let mut ctx = ClipboardContext::new().unwrap();

    let msg = "Hello, world!";
    ctx.set_contents(msg.to_owned()).unwrap();

    let content = ctx.get_contents().unwrap();

    println!("{}", content);
}

API

The ClipboardProvider trait has the following functions:

fn get_contents(&mut self) -> Result<String, Box<Error>>;
fn set_contents(&mut self, String) -> Result<(), Box<Error>>;

ClipboardContext is a type alias for one of the following types implementing ClipboardProvider. Which concrete type is chosen for ClipboardContext depends on the OS(via conditional compilation).

• WindowsClipboardContext
• AndroidClipboardContext
• OSXClipboardContext
• X11ClipboardContext
• NopClipboardContext

License

rust-clipboard is dual-licensed under MIT and Apache2.