how to copy text to the clipborad in c++?

Question

I am a new programmer in c++ and I can't understand how to use the clipboard to copy and paste like in any other program with text. Example please?

I am using Code::Blocks 16.01 MinGW32 g++ windows 10.

Answer 1

SetClipboardData should handle it.

glob = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_FIXED,32);
memcpy(glob,"it works",9);

OpenClipboard(hWnd);
EmptyClipboard();
SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT,glob);
CloseClipboard();

EDIT

This will get data out of clipboard and return that data in string.

std::string GetClipboardText()
{
    OpenClipboard(nullptr);
    HANDLE hData = GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT);

    char * pszText = static_cast<char*>( GlobalLock(hData) );
    std::string text( pszText );

    GlobalUnlock( hData );
    CloseClipboard();

    return text;
}

Answer 2

For a cross-platform solution, you may use a library like ClipboardXX.

Usage example:

#include "clipboard.hpp"
#include <string>

int main()
{
    clipboardxx::clipboard clipboard;

    // copy
    clipboard << "text you wanna copy";

    // paste
    std::string paste_text;
    clipboard >> paste_text;
}

This may be preferrable for a Windows only software as well due to modern C++ being nicer to work with than the plain old Windows API.

Another useful library might be clip but I didn't test it myself.

Usage example:

#include "clip.h"
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
  clip::set_text("Hello World");

  std::string value;
  clip::get_text(value);
  std::cout << value << "\n";
}