[Rd] Wishlist - access non-text from clipboard in Windows

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 9/22/05, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 9/22/2005 1:12 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > There is an open source clipboard extender CLCL that handles all
> > clipboard formats.  I think this code could be leveraged to simplify
> > it substantially.  Run CLCL and copy something from IE or Excel,
> > say, so that you have a complex object in the clipboard.
> > Now expand Clipboard in the left pane and the various components
> > in the clipboard are shown in the tree as children.  You can right click
> > and save any of them.
> >
> > If this code could be followed it might be simple to just have a new
> > argument to clipboard() which specified which component to return
> > or one could optionally return a list of all of them.
>
> We'd need to write clipboard() first.  This might be a good idea, but
> it's not at the top of my priority list.

Sorry, its readClipboard() rather than clipboard().  See ?readClipboard

>
> I think a better thing for R to do is to make sure it's easy for package
> writers to write connections.  Then a package writer could write
> clipboard(), and it would fit into the rest of the R machinery.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> >
> > On 9/22/05, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> >> On 9/22/2005 11:13 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> >> > Just wanted to post this wishlist item.
> >> >
> >> > Currently one can read text from the Windows clipboard but the Windows
> >> > clipboard can hold all sorts of objects, not just text, and it can
> >> > hold them simultaneously.  For example, if one selects some cells in
> >> > Excel and then copies them to the clipboard, the clipboard will have
> >> > all the cell boundary information but R can only read the text and
> >> > will have to figure it out if it can.
> >> >
> >> > It would be nice if the user could use R to access all the information on
> >> > the clipboard, not just the text.
> >>
> >> This looks like something someone should write a package to do.  It
> >> needs lots of support (e.g. what do all the possible clipboard format
> >> constants mean, what binary format corresponds to each, etc.), but it
> >> would only be useful on the Windows platform.
> >>
> >> Duncan Murdoch
> >>
> >
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