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Community Plugins & Addons • Clipboard plugin request.

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To be honest, I am not sure how useful this would be. Rainmeter deals with strings and numbers (both text as far as the clipboard is concerned). I guess the ability to copy the visual parts of the skin (as an image) to the clipboard could be useful. I guess you could copy a file or something....but I am not seeing any more usefulness than that.
Yeah, what I meant is that currently (and as per your upgrade thoughts), your plugin would have the ability to "get" almost anything from the clipboard, potentially even saving the result to a file (that's the paste part from a copy-paste process). Meanwhile, the !SetClip bang, even though technically everything is a string, has a limited ability to "set" the clipboard to something, e.g. you can't copy an image unless you pass, say, a local WebParser result to !SetClip as a string (that's the copy part from a copy-paste process). My thought was simply reducing / eliminating the discrepancy between the abilities of your plugin and those of !SetClip as part of such a process, that's all. Whether this is useful or worth trying in a Rainmeter context is up to you, I was just laying it out as an afterthought, mostly. :D
Off topic, but mentioning the ability to copy visual parts of the skin as an image reminded me of one of my objectives: make my Screen Ruler skin able to screenshot (preferably as animated GIF too) what's behind the skin, without resorting to 3rd party software like ImageMagick or NirCMD. I found some methods via PowerShell, but it involves embedding some C# code too. That would be a handy plugin to have, especially for illustrating short skin demos - might be a good starting point in Rainmeter plugin making for me, if I'll ever pursue that path.

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