macOS Carbon - Pasteboard

[john903]

How do you copy and paste plain text into the pasteboard? I'm using Carbon. Any code examples would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[kainjow]

Apple has plenty of documentation on this:

http://developer.apple.com/document...og_Guide/paste_intro/chapter_1_section_1.html

 

[john903]

Yes, but I'm just looking for some sample code and the api looks like a lot to wade though. I just need two simple functions to put and get text from the pasteboard. I would greatly appreciate any code!

Thanks!

 

[lee1210]

http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/PasteboardPeeker/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS10000672

 

[john903]

I've seen that one. I'm new to Mac programming and the code is very dense for me. I'm working on a cross-platform project that uses GLUT but I still need to do a few OS specific things like copy and paste text. It was easy to implement in Windows but it's eluding me on Mac... Thanks for the help.

 

[krye]

Apple has plenty of documentation on this:

http://developer.apple.com/document...og_Guide/paste_intro/chapter_1_section_1.html

BABY RUTH!!!! Sorry. I saw the picture of Sloth and I couldn't help it.

 

[john903]

I got the first part working so I am able to copy text into the pasteboard.

I can't get my code working where I retrieve the text from the pasteboard. Here is the first part of the code. It fails at PasteboardSynchronize giving me the PasteboardOutOfSync error. Do I need to get a reference to the pasteboard some other way when retrieving text from the pasteboard?

OSStatus err = noErr;
PasteboardRef inPasteboard;
PasteboardCreate(kPasteboardClipboard, &inPasteboard);
	
PasteboardSyncFlags syncFlags;
ItemCount itemCount;
	
syncFlags = PasteboardSynchronize( inPasteboard );
require_action( syncFlags&kPasteboardModified, PasteboardOutOfSync, err = badPasteboardSyncErr );

 

[john903]

Ok, I just commented out the PasteboardSynchronize and it works. I got the code here so I guess if you are using this code outside of an event you don't need that call.
http://developer.apple.com/document...og_Guide/paste_tasks/chapter_3_section_6.html