Re^2: Copy an image to the Clipboard, Windows

I have a Tk gui that generates several plots and graphs using the Tk::Canvas. Currently, I allow users to save .gifs, .pngs, .jpegs, etc by converting the canvas to GD, then dump to disk. Several users have asked that I allow them to CNTRL-C the canvas image (copy to clipboard) so they can paste the image into an email, spreadsheet, whatever. It's really more of a convenience... they already have the ability to get the image from the disk save.

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Re^3: Copy an image to the Clipboard, Windows by ww (Archbishop) on Oct 16, 2014 at 15:23 UTC
Ok.... so XY problem guess was not PRECISELY on-target; now sounds (to this non-user of Tk:...) like a tradeoff between cost/difficulty (as mentioned by other responders) and your (presumed) desired to please the users. But unless they're the source of big$ or major gratification, I probably would not bother! If you didn't program your executable by toggling in binary, it wasn't really programming!	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Copy an image to the Clipboard, Windows by remling (Novice) on Oct 16, 2014 at 17:06 UTC
There are dollar and gratification considerations, but at the same time I have bigger fish to fry... was hoping for some low-hanging fruit. The docs for the Win32::clipboard module (uggh) indicate the set method only accepts strings. I can generate requested images on the fly and in memory on the CNTRL-C event... just can't stuff them on the clipboard.	[reply]
Re^3: Copy an image to the Clipboard, Windows by james28909 (Deacon) on Oct 16, 2014 at 17:06 UTC
depending on the machine they are using, maybe you can tell them to try clipx? i am pretty sure that clipx does this (copy images to clipboard) and it also allows you to copy multiple entries at the same time. maybe the users installing clipx could be a solution	[reply]