Non text support

[SimonCropp]

to enable copy of binary data. eg files, images, etc

@mfkl do u think this is achievable?

[mfkl]

I think so (probably cleaner on iOS than Android though).

Android:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30660771/how-to-copy-images-files-to-clipboard-in-android-any-alternative-methods-steps
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/copy-paste.html#Clipboard

iOS
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uipasteboard/1622069-image?language=objc

[mfkl]

Should this warrant a new package? Thinking TextCopy might be confusing for a package name that does copying of non-text things, might be fine though... what do you think?

[SimonCropp]

yeah happy with a rename. but to what?

[mfkl]

You seem much more inspired than me at naming nugets :D AnyCopy, XCopy, AllCopy, CrossCopy, ClipboardCopy... or just Copy. edit: already taken.

[SimonCropp]

dont know why i closed this

[mcon]

Worth noting that non-text will be a pain on Linux, given xsel is text only https://github.com/kfish/xsel/blob/master/xsel.c#L736 whereas xclip worked for any data type with its -target option - certainly it would be possible to do something gross and base64 encode binary data.

It feels like, going forward, using something like https://github.com/ajnewlands/X11.Net and doing the selector manipulation in process in stead of shelling out could be preferable - less gross and more flexible.

Update: given you always need some background process to serve the clipboard, and there's no way to fork .net to the background in the same way there's actually not really an alternative to shelling out :(

[ricardoboss]

Can we get at least partial support for some platforms? Like on Windows?