Full Clipboard Access

[erezklr]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe the problem.

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Describe the solution you'd like

Receive from the clipboard not only text but also images, RTF and HTML and all the other objects it allows

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[martincostello]

Could you explain what you're trying to achieve and in what context?

[ghost]

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[erezklr]

A few years ago I wrote a helper systemin WPF to help with academic research. Among the rest of the features was the ability to directly copy information that the researcher transferred to the clipboard, This information could be text, images, or RTF. I want to convert it to MAUI but I can't because I lack this ability, you can only take text from the clipboard. Attach sample code from WPF: if (!IsClipboardEmpty()) { IDataObject data_object = Clipboard.GetDataObject();

if (data_object.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Bitmap))
{

}
else if (data_object.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Rtf))
{

        var rtfText = Clipboard.GetText(TextDataFormat.Rtf).ToString();

    }

}
else if (data_object.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Html))
{
    try
    {
        data = data_object.GetData(DataFormats.Html).ToString();

}
else if (data_object.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text))
{
    string str = data_object.GetData(DataFormats.Text).ToString();

} 

[martincostello]

Looks like an issue to be transferred to dotnet/maui.

[drasticactions]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/platform-integration/data/clipboard?view=net-maui-8.0#using-clipboard

The essentials API for Clipboard is limited to strings, and is called out in the docs. The platforms MAUI targets don't all have the same feature set as what WPF offers, so I doubt there could be a consistent way to offer the same functionality through a cross-platform API. As it stands, for this API, it's not a bug.

@mattleibow what do you think?