Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] putting arbitrary strings on the clipboard

[Mark H. <di...@ma...>]

On Jan 18, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Brian Marick wrote:

> I want to put arbitrary ASCII strings onto the clipboard (including  
> NULs, control chars, etc.). I could do this:
>
> [...]
>
> I'd rather go through a lower-level API than through applescript,  
> but I'm ignorant enough of OSA and other topics specific to the Mac  
> that I can't find what that would look like.
>
> Can anyone help?

Assuming that you are wanting to use the rubycocoa framework for  
this, you should check out the NSPasteboard class:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ 
ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSPasteboard.html

Code will look something like this:

pb = OSX::NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard
pb.setString str, :forType, "NSStringPboardType"

Note, I have not tested this code, and it's been a while since I  
worked with the pasteboard in rubycocoa. This is just to get you  
started :)

cheers,
Mark