# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # ***************************************************************************** # Copyright (C) 2003-2006 Jack Trainor. # Copyright (C) 2006-2020 Jorgen Stenarson. # Copyright (C) 2020 Bassem Girgis. # # Distributed under the terms of the BSD License. The full license is in # the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software. # ***************************************************************************** ################################### # # Based on recipe posted to ctypes-users # see archive # http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/ctypes-users/1771866 # # ########################################################################## # # The Python win32clipboard lib functions work well enough ... except that they # can only cut and paste items from within one application, not across # applications or processes. # # I've written a number of Python text filters I like to run on the contents of # the clipboard so I need to call the Windows clipboard API with global memory # for my filters to work properly. # # Here's some sample code solving this problem using ctypes. # # This is my first work with ctypes. It's powerful stuff, but passing arguments # in and out of functions is tricky. More sample code would have been helpful, # hence this contribution. # ########################################################################## import ctypes import ctypes.wintypes as wintypes from ctypes import * from pyreadline3.keysyms.winconstants import CF_UNICODETEXT, GHND from pyreadline3.unicode_helper import ensure_str, ensure_unicode OpenClipboard = windll.user32.OpenClipboard OpenClipboard.argtypes = [wintypes.HWND] OpenClipboard.restype = wintypes.BOOL EmptyClipboard = windll.user32.EmptyClipboard GetClipboardData = windll.user32.GetClipboardData GetClipboardData.argtypes = [wintypes.UINT] GetClipboardData.restype = wintypes.HANDLE GetClipboardFormatName = windll.user32.GetClipboardFormatNameA GetClipboardFormatName.argtypes = [wintypes.UINT, c_char_p, c_int] SetClipboardData = windll.user32.SetClipboardData SetClipboardData.argtypes = [wintypes.UINT, wintypes.HANDLE] SetClipboardData.restype = wintypes.HANDLE EnumClipboardFormats = windll.user32.EnumClipboardFormats EnumClipboardFormats.argtypes = [c_int] CloseClipboard = windll.user32.CloseClipboard CloseClipboard.argtypes = [] GlobalAlloc = windll.kernel32.GlobalAlloc GlobalAlloc.argtypes = [wintypes.UINT, c_size_t] GlobalAlloc.restype = wintypes.HGLOBAL GlobalLock = windll.kernel32.GlobalLock GlobalLock.argtypes = [wintypes.HGLOBAL] GlobalLock.restype = c_void_p GlobalUnlock = windll.kernel32.GlobalUnlock GlobalUnlock.argtypes = [c_int] _strncpy = ctypes.windll.kernel32.lstrcpynW _strncpy.restype = c_wchar_p _strncpy.argtypes = [c_wchar_p, c_wchar_p, c_size_t] def enum(): OpenClipboard(0) q = EnumClipboardFormats(0) while q: q = EnumClipboardFormats(q) CloseClipboard() def getformatname(format): buffer = c_buffer(" " * 100) bufferSize = sizeof(buffer) OpenClipboard(0) GetClipboardFormatName(format, buffer, bufferSize) CloseClipboard() return buffer.value def GetClipboardText(): text = "" if OpenClipboard(0): hClipMem = GetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT) if hClipMem: text = wstring_at(GlobalLock(hClipMem)) GlobalUnlock(hClipMem) CloseClipboard() return text def SetClipboardText(text): buffer = create_unicode_buffer(ensure_unicode(text)) bufferSize = sizeof(buffer) hGlobalMem = GlobalAlloc(GHND, c_size_t(bufferSize)) GlobalLock.restype = c_void_p lpGlobalMem = GlobalLock(hGlobalMem) _strncpy( cast(lpGlobalMem, c_wchar_p), cast(addressof(buffer), c_wchar_p), c_size_t(bufferSize), ) GlobalUnlock(c_int(hGlobalMem)) if OpenClipboard(0): EmptyClipboard() SetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT, hGlobalMem) CloseClipboard() if __name__ == "__main__": txt = GetClipboardText() # display last text clipped print(txt)