[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Pythonmac-SIG digest, Vol 1 #222 - 2 msgs

[Jack Jansen]

> could anyone give me an idea on how to access the clipboard
> 
> what I want to do is copy something to the clipboard and when I activate my
> program it reads it and mods it
> 
> 
> example:
> 
> getclipboard(text)
> read(text)

The Scrap module is what you need. The quick way to use it is:
- Putting stuff in:
    Scrap.ZeroScrap()
    Scrap.PutScrap("TEXT", "Hello World")
- Getting stuff out:
    h = Res.Resource("")
    Scrap.GetScrap(h, "TEXT")
    print "Clipboard contains:", h.data

The rather strange interface is because it is more-or-less a straight mapping 
of the C interface to Python. (Or, in other words, see Inside Mac for more use 
cases).
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