Stdin to Clipboard

This is an open source project that compiles a native windows console application to set the global windows clipboard into the data read in the standard input.

it uses Win32 API, such as OpenClipboard, GlobalAlloc, SetClipboardData, CloseClipboard, etc.

Compiling

Compiling is done by the compile-windows-loop.bat batch script.

Usage

1. Run the stdin-to-clipboard.exe process.
2. Send a string to stdin, such as "hello world".
3. Close the stream by any means, such as pressing Ctrl+C.
4. Program will exit. If the exit code was 0 then your global clipboard should contain the "hello world" string. Otherwise check stdout and stderr for details.
5. Test it by pressing Ctrl+V in a text editor.

NodeJS Interface

The file ./interface/string_to_clipboard.js exposes a single NodeJS asyncronous function that depends on child_process module to operate the native application to achieve its goal

/**
 * Set the global clipboard string
 * @param {string} text
 * @param {boolean} [debug] default false so that no extra information is printed to stdout
 * @returns {Promise<{success: true} | {error: true, message: string}>}
 */
async function string_to_clipboard(text, debug = false) {
	// implementation hidden
}