Binary clipboard

[anna-is-cute]

Being able to read the clipboard as a vector or slice of u8s would be extremely useful to anyone who needs to work with the clipboard not just with strings.

I know this is feasible in Windows, and I think it can be done in macOS (from what I read of the current implementation), but I don't know about in X11.

[aweinstock314]

I agree that this would be a useful feature. I'm willing to accept a PR that adds support for the platforms that you're willing to implement it for, and I'll add support for the rest of the platforms (it should be feasible under X11 too).

[NomadMaker]

Has there been any progress on this?

I am willing to work on an X11 version. I am sure that it can be done because I have written a Java application which copies images from the system clipboard from a different graphics application under Linux. I think that is a proof of concept, at least.

Multiple things can be in the clipboard at the same time, which might require changes to your elegant clipboard.

[rickycodes]

I am also looking for this functionality... Got a panic when calling Result::unwrap() on ctx.get_contents() when trying to read image data:

thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: StringError("pasteboard#readObjectsForClasses:options: returned empty")', libcore/result.rs:945:5
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` for a backtrace.

[leiserfg]

Check this
https://github.com/SpiralP/rust-clip-sys