Nasal library/clipboard
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This page contains documentation for the clipboard
namespace in Nasal. This namespace provides functions for working with text stored in the clipboard . The clipboard
namespace is implemented in flightgear/src/Scripting/NasalClipboard.cxx. There are also several files in the Scripting folder that implement the backend depending on the OS.
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Functions
getText()
clipboard.getText([type]);
Returns the contents of the clipboard as a string.
- type
- Optional argument that specifies the source of the text. If
clipboard.CLIPBOARD
(the default) is given, the contents of the clipboard are returned. Ifclipboard.SELECTION
is given, the contents of the selection buffer are given. Note that only X11 systems properly implementclipboard.SELECTION
, but this argument may still be used with setText() (see example 2).
Examples
var text = clipboard.getText(); # make sure you copy some text first
print("'", text, "'");
clipboard.setText("Demo", clipboard.SELECTION);
var text = clipboard.getText(clipboard.SELECTION);
print("'", text, "'"); # prints 'Demo'