ClipboardXX

Header only lightweight library to copy and paste text from clipboard

Example

#include <clipboardxx.hpp>
#include <string>

int main() {
    clipboardxx::clipboard clipboard;

    // copy
    clipboard << "text you wanna copy"; // or clipboard.copy("text you wanna copy")


    // paste
    std::string paste_text;
    clipboard >> paste_text; // or const std::string paste_text = clipboard.paste()
}

Compatibility

What supports:

• Copy pasting utf-8 text in mentioned operating systems
• Windows
• X11 in GNU/Linux based operating systems

What not supports:

• MacOS
• Wayland in GNU/Linux based operating systems (maybe soon ...)
• Copy pasting other formats such as images, documents ...

Usage

Windows

Nothing specially need to do, You need all files under include directory and then include clipboardxx.hpp file and you are good to go

GNU/Linux

As mentioned before, Currently ClipboardXX only supports X11 and needs xcb library and header files to communicate with it. So you need to install xcb with any way that you prefer. Then you need cmake to compile it without any hassle, just add ClipboardXX subdirectory in your cmake file:

add_subdirectory(ClipboardXX)
target_link_libraries(your_target ClipboardXX)

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