Add a file to the system clipboard

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The JUCE system clipboard only allows you to add a text string, presumably it’s not a massive extension of this to allow files to be put in the clipboard, or is it? Anyone know?

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Windows.

Still looking for Mac solution

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Apparently:

    NSURL *object = [[NSURL alloc] initFileURLWithPath:@"/Users/username/Desktop/main.png"];
    NSPasteboard *pb = [NSPasteboard generalPasteboard];
    [pb clearContents];

    NSArray *objectsToCopy = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:object, nil];
    BOOL pasted = [pb writeObjects:objectsToCopy];

    if(pasted) // paste was successful
        NSLog(@"pasted");

    [object release];
    [objectsToCopy release];
    [pb release];
    ```
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Nice… I just found that link to the reference: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/PasteboardGuide106/Articles/pbConcepts.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008101-SW8

Would be cool to make that available to the SystemClipBoard…

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I guess it’ll need solving for iOS, Android and Linux to be an official feature?

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any news about copy / pasting from clipboard?

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We solved it for Mac and Windows as above. Works well but I didn’t see anyone leaping to add it to JUCE main :wink:

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