Maybe you should have a look into win32 which will give you full controll of
the clipboard: Here is the example code from Mark Hammond's demos. Of course
you have to find out a format which is understood by the programms you want
to paste the images in. But PIL is very good in converting formats ;-)
Kindly
Michael P
# win32clipboardDemo.py
#
# Demo/test of the win32clipboard module.
from win32clipboard import *
import win32con
import types
if not __debug__:
print "WARNING: The test code in this module uses assert"
print "This instance of Python has asserts disabled, so many tests will
be skipped"
cf_names = {}
# Build map of CF_* constants to names.
for name, val in win32con.__dict__.items():
if name[:3]=="CF_" and name != "CF_SCREENFONTS": #
CF_SCREEN_FONTS==CF_TEXT!?!?
cf_names[val] = name
def TestEmptyClipboard():
OpenClipboard()
try:
EmptyClipboard()
assert EnumClipboardFormats(0)==0, "Clipboard formats were available
after emptying it!"
finally:
CloseClipboard()
def TestText():
OpenClipboard()
try:
text = "Hello from Python"
SetClipboardText(text)
got = GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_TEXT)
assert got == text, "Didnt get the correct result back - '%r'." %
(got,)
# Win32 documentation says I can get the result back as CF_UNICODE
or CF_OEMTEXT.
# But it appears I need to close the clipboard for this to kick-in.
# but if I attempt to, it fails!
finally:
CloseClipboard()
OpenClipboard()
try:
got = GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_UNICODETEXT)
assert got == text, "Didnt get the correct result back - '%r'." %
(got,)
assert type(got)==types.UnicodeType, "Didnt get the correct result
back - '%r'." % (got,)
got = GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_OEMTEXT)
assert got == text, "Didnt get the correct result back - '%r'." %
(got,)
# Unicode tests
EmptyClipboard()
text = u"Hello from Python unicode"
# Now set the Unicode value
SetClipboardData(win32con.CF_UNICODETEXT, text)
# Get it in Unicode.
got = GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_UNICODETEXT)
assert got == text, "Didnt get the correct result back - '%r'." %
(got,)
assert type(got)==types.UnicodeType, "Didnt get the correct result
back - '%r'." % (got,)
# Close and open the clipboard to ensure auto-conversions take
place.
finally:
CloseClipboard()
OpenClipboard()
try:
# Make sure I can still get the text.
got = GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_TEXT)
assert got == text, "Didnt get the correct result back - '%r'." %
(got,)
# Make sure we get back the correct types.
got = GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_UNICODETEXT)
assert type(got)==types.UnicodeType, "Didnt get the correct result
back - '%r'." % (got,)
got = GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_OEMTEXT)
assert got == text, "Didnt get the correct result back - '%r'." %
(got,)
print "Clipboard text tests worked correctly"
finally:
CloseClipboard()
def TestClipboardEnum():
OpenClipboard()
try:
# Enumerate over the clipboard types
enum = 0
while 1:
enum = EnumClipboardFormats(enum)
if enum==0:
break
assert IsClipboardFormatAvailable(enum), "Have format, but
clipboard says it is not available!"
n = cf_names.get(enum,"")
if not n:
try:
n = GetClipboardFormatName(enum)
except error:
n = "unknown (%s)" % (enum,)
print "Have format", n
print "Clipboard enumerator tests worked correctly"
finally:
CloseClipboard()
class Foo:
def __init__(self, **kw):
self.__dict__.update(kw)
def __cmp__(self, other):
return cmp(self.__dict__, other.__dict__)
def TestCustomFormat():
OpenClipboard()
try:
# Just for the fun of it pickle Python objects through the clipboard
fmt = RegisterClipboardFormat("Python Pickle Format")
import cPickle
pickled_object = Foo(a=1, b=2, Hi=3)
SetClipboardData(fmt, cPickle.dumps( pickled_object ) )
# Now read it back.
data = GetClipboardData(fmt)
loaded_object = cPickle.loads(data)
assert cPickle.loads(data) == pickled_object, "Didnt get the correct
data!"
print "Clipboard custom format tests worked correctly"
finally:
CloseClipboard()
if __name__=='__main__':
TestEmptyClipboard()
TestText()
TestCustomFormat()
TestClipboardEnum()
# And leave it empty at the end!
TestEmptyClipboard()
