Clipboard

Clipboard is an abstraction of clipboard for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Synopsis

// get the system clipboard
var clipboard = nw.Clipboard.get();

// Read from clipboard
var text = clipboard.get('text');
console.log(text);

// Or write something
clipboard.set('I love NW.js :)', 'text');

// And clear it!
clipboard.clear();

Clipboard.get()

• Returns {Clipboard} the clipboard object

clip.set(data, [type])

• data {String} the data to write to the clipboard
• type {String} Optional the type of the data. Currently only "text" (plain text) is support. By default, type is set to "text".

Write data of type to the clipboard.

clip.get([type])

• type {String} Optional the type of the data. Currently only "text" (plain text) is support. By default, type is set to "text".
• Returns {String} the data retrieved from the clipboard

Get the data of type from clipboard.

clip.clear()

Clear the clipboard.