Clipboard operations

[Oliver Soeder]

Hello together,

I want to write an application which copies the current date to the
clipboard. After that I will be able to insert it at the current cursor
position. If possible, the text should be inserted automatically at the
current cursor position.

Now I already solved that problem in PERL, but after creating a binary
from it, the code which had original 10 lines got a 2 MB .exe file.

I learned C++ 7 years ago in university and did not use it any more.

I need your help to show me, how I can do clipboard operations, I will
be able to solve the rest of the problems.
Thank you
Oliver

[Victor Bazarov]

Oliver Soeder wrote:

[..]
I need your help to show me, how I can do clipboard operations, I will
be able to solve the rest of the problems.

There is no "clipboard" in C++. You need to ask your OS-specific
question in the newsgroup dedicated to your OS.

[Oliver Soeder]

Victor Bazarov schrieb:

Oliver Soeder wrote:

>[..]
I need your help to show me, how I can do clipboard operations, I will
be able to solve the rest of the problems.

There is no "clipboard" in C++. You need to ask your OS-specific
question in the newsgroup dedicated to your OS.

There is also no clipboard class? I even have it in Perl. I need it for
Windows.

[Victor Bazarov]

Oliver Soeder wrote:

Victor Bazarov schrieb:

>Oliver Soeder wrote:

>>[..]
I need your help to show me, how I can do clipboard operations, I
will be able to solve the rest of the problems.

There is no "clipboard" in C++. You need to ask your OS-specific
question in the newsgroup dedicated to your OS.

There is also no clipboard class? I even have it in Perl. I need it
for Windows.

Do I really need to repeat what I just posted to have you convinced?

[John Harrison]

Oliver Soeder wrote:

Victor Bazarov schrieb:

>Oliver Soeder wrote:

>>[..]
I need your help to show me, how I can do clipboard operations, I will
be able to solve the rest of the problems.

There is no "clipboard" in C++. You need to ask your OS-specific
question in the newsgroup dedicated to your OS.

There is also no clipboard class? I even have it in Perl. I need it for
Windows.

There is a clipboard class in the C++ you are using (no doubt).

There is no clipboard class in *standard* C++, which is what we discuss
here. Follow Victor's advice.

John

[James Kanze]

On Jul 19, 9:14 pm, John Harrison <[e-mail]:

Oliver Soeder wrote:

Victor Bazarov schrieb:

Oliver Soeder wrote:
[..]
I need your help to show me, how I can do clipboard operations, I will
be able to solve the rest of the problems.

There is no "clipboard" in C++. You need to ask your OS-specific
question in the newsgroup dedicated to your OS.

There is also no clipboard class? I even have it in Perl. I need it for
Windows.

There is a clipboard class in the C++ you are using (no doubt).

Are you sure? There isn't in any of the C++ I use under Unix.
(The C++, of course, allow access to the various X Windows
libraries, but those library API's are always in C, without any
classes. And they're not really part of C++, not even the
platform specific C++.)

There is no clipboard class in *standard* C++, which is what
we discuss here. Follow Victor's advice.

The word is "portable" C++, not standard C++. Or simply C++.
Unlike some other languages, C++ does not try to provide
everything; it provides the framework, but expects you to use
other libraries for all but the most basics. I'm sure
wxWidgets, for example, has a clipboard class, or Qt, or any
number of other windowing libraries. But not C++ per se.

This is a general philosophy of C++. It has some advantages;
you can find and choose a windowing library which corresponds to
your philosophy as to what a windowing library should be like
(which may not correspond to mine), for example. It also has
some disadvantages: the next C++ programmer you hire might not
know the library you're using.

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