• tastyminerals (4/4) Jul 30 2021 I made a GUI app using tkd library. I am reading the string from
• rikki cattermole (4/7) Jul 30 2021 copyText on a Text widget appears to do what you want.
• tastyminerals (5/13) Jul 31 2021 The problem is that I don't use Text widget but retrieve the
• rikki cattermole (3/5) Jul 31 2021 No, this requires a windowing library and yes a window to do it
• Adam D Ruppe (9/11) Jul 31 2021 You can always call the same system functions from D that you'd

tastyminerals <tastyminerals gmail.com> writes:

I made a GUI app using tkd library. I am reading the string from 
one of the app widgets and would like to put it into the 
clipboard. Does anyone have an idea how to copy a string to the 
clipboard in D?

rikki cattermole <rikki cattermole.co.nz> writes:

On 31/07/2021 7:33 AM, tastyminerals wrote:
 I made a GUI app using tkd library. I am reading the string from one of 
 the app widgets and would like to put it into the clipboard. Does anyone 
 have an idea how to copy a string to the clipboard in D?

copyText on a Text widget appears to do what you want.

https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd/blob/9ca40d117649bb9a9db108d8f92e92870b9dc77e/source/tkd/widget/text.d#L477

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/tk_textCopy

tastyminerals <tastyminerals gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 30 July 2021 at 20:01:09 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
 On 31/07/2021 7:33 AM, tastyminerals wrote:
 I made a GUI app using tkd library. I am reading the string 
 from one of the app widgets and would like to put it into the 
 clipboard. Does anyone have an idea how to copy a string to 
 the clipboard in D?

 copyText on a Text widget appears to do what you want.

 https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd/blob/9ca40d117649bb9a9db108d8f92e92870b9dc77e/source/tkd/widget/text.d#L477

 https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/tk_textCopy

The problem is that I don't use Text widget but retrieve the 
string from TreeView widget which only has getSelectedRows 
method. So I thought there may be a way in D to communicate with 
the system clipboard...

rikki cattermole <rikki cattermole.co.nz> writes:

On 01/08/2021 6:30 AM, tastyminerals wrote:
 So I thought there may be a way in D to communicate with the system 
 clipboard...

No, this requires a windowing library and yes a window to do it 
(depending on the windowing system and even the desktop environment).

Adam D Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 31 July 2021 at 18:30:47 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:
 So I thought there may be a way in D to communicate with the 
 system clipboard...

You can always call the same system functions from D that you'd 
use from C.

This is the source to my simpledisplay.d library on its clipboard 
function:

https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/blob/master/simpledisplay.d#L5279

The Windows side isn't too bad, the linux side a bit more 
complicated. Generally window libs offer something for this but 
idk about the one you're using.