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8504 :: Nim access to OSX cut and paste buffer:

• DMisener (orginal) [2021-10-15T19:31:40+02:00] view original

  I'm trying to avoid costly shelling out to pbcopy/pbpaste.

  
  import osproc, strutils
  
  proc pbpaste() : string =
    var exitCode: int;
    (result, exitCode) = execCmdEx "pbpaste"
  
  proc pbcopy(content: string) =
    discard execCmd "echo " & content.replace("\"","\\\"") & "| pbcopy"
  
  if isMainModule:
    pbcopy "This is very \"special\""
    echo pbpaste()
  Run

  It see a nimble package:

  Nimclipboard which looks to be a wrapper for libclipboard which claims to support _OS X (Cocoa)_

  But it doesn't install successfully :-(

  Any other suggestions?

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• treeform (orginal) [2021-10-15T19:38:21+02:00] view original

  You could try GLFW:

  install staticglfw

  https://nimdocs.com/treeform/staticglfw/staticglfw.html#getClipboardString%2CWindow https://nimdocs.com/treeform/staticglfw/staticglfw.html#setClipboardString%2CWindow%2Ccstring

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• yglukhov (orginal) [2021-10-15T19:48:38+02:00] view original

  Also https://github.com/yglukhov/clipboard/

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