How do you recognize if someone has something on their clipboard?

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I have a Image Host Service, now people can copy images in their clipboard and press control + V to paste them and upload.

Now i want to detect if they have images in their clipboard like: "You have 7 images in your clipboard. Press control + v to upload them" I am using PHP and jQuery for the clipboard paste.

Is this possible?

Kind Regards

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6413036/get-current-clipboard-content — Steven Liao, Aug 30 '13 at 22:00
Why not @LightnessRacesinOrbit , you can copy 7 images in your image folder :)? — MODEV, Aug 30 '13 at 22:01
possible duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4744621/read-the-client-clipboard-with-jquery — andrew, Aug 30 '13 at 22:03
@MODEV: No you can't. You can copy seven paths. The Windows clipboard contains only one slot for binary data. — Lightness Races in Orbit, Aug 30 '13 at 22:05
PHP won't do it anyway since it's executed server-side and clipboards are client-side. — , Aug 30 '13 at 22:09
Well, ill put my site online: Scrshot.com , select 7 images from a image path, and press control + v (control paste) now 7 images are uploading. — MODEV, Aug 30 '13 at 22:10
@MODEV: That does not mean that there are seven images in the clipboard. — Lightness Races in Orbit, Aug 30 '13 at 22:11
But if you uploaded 7 images it means you had 7 images in your clipboard? — MODEV, Aug 30 '13 at 22:11
@MODEV: No, it does not. Read some more about how the clipboard works. It only contained the paths of those files. You _can_ store actual image data in the clipboard, but only one at a time, and not from the Windows shell. ("Copy Image" from your browser is an example of this.) — Lightness Races in Orbit, Aug 30 '13 at 22:11
@StevenLiao , i already have that .. This is a other question. Thanks for helping anyways. — MODEV, Aug 30 '13 at 22:11
@LightnessRacesinOrbit , thanks for this explain, i didnt know this. Sorry! :) — MODEV, Aug 30 '13 at 22:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 30 '13 at 21:59

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Not with the technologies you have listed, and I doubt many others. (this is not a comment, this is the answer)

answered Aug 30 '13 at 21:59

Daryl Gill

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Thanks Daryl, if it was possible it would be nice. – MODEV Aug 30 '13 at 22:02

How do you recognize if someone has something on their clipboard?

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