Clipboard manager plugin

[zzeneg]

Hey, guys!

I've created Clipboard Manager for Rainmeter about 4.5 years ago (oh my, I can't believe it). Now I think it's the time to get rid of these two crappy utilities and create normal Rainmeter plugin.

Overview
This plugin helps to work with clipboard - saving it's history and restoring items from history. All types of copied items are supported as it just basically saving all data properties. The amount of stored items is unlimited, but they are lost after restart.


Oh yes I'm still using this skin, for 5 years now - thanks @poiru :)

Usage
First of all you need to download the correct version of the plugin from this post (or compile it from sources) and copy it to the "Rainmeter/Plugins" folder.

To setup a skin you just need to create as many measures as you want for storing history and then show this measures as strings.
There are no settings at all, but plugin supports two bangs - "Set" and "Delete". First one puts item from history to clipboard, second deletes it.

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[line1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=PluginClipboard.dll

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[Left1]
Meter=STRING
MeasureName=line1
Text="%1"
LeftMouseDownAction=!CommandMeasure "line1" "Set"
RightMouseDownAction=!CommandMeasure "line1" "Delete"

You can also check skin sample:

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    [Rainmeter]
    Update=1000

    [sLeft]
    Y=18r
    H=18
    W=200
    ClipString=1
    AntiAlias=1

    [line1]
    Measure=Plugin
    Plugin=PluginClipboard.dll

    [line2]
    Measure=Plugin
    Plugin=PluginClipboard.dll

    [line3]
    Measure=Plugin
    Plugin=PluginClipboard.dll

    [Left1]
    Meter=STRING
    MeterStyle=sLeft
    MeasureName=line1
    Text="%1"
    LeftMouseDownAction=!CommandMeasure "line1" "Set"
    RightMouseDownAction=!CommandMeasure "line1" "Delete"

    [Left2]
    Meter=STRING
    MeterStyle=sLeft
    MeasureName=line2
    Text="%1"
    LeftMouseDownAction=!CommandMeasure "line2" "Set"
    RightMouseDownAction=!CommandMeasure "line2" "Delete"

    [Left3]
    Meter=STRING
    MeterStyle=sLeft
    MeasureName=line3
    Text="%1"
    LeftMouseDownAction=!CommandMeasure "line3" "Set"
    RightMouseDownAction=!CommandMeasure "line3" "Delete"

Details
There are three convertors in the plugin which handle how different types are showing in the interface. Now it supports text, image and files/folders and I believe all types can be converted to one of these (at least I couldn't find other examples). In case of unsupported type the data will be rendered as a timestamp. If it's happening very often in your apps, you can add new converter in the source code (or just ping me and I'll do it).

Source code is available on Github inside my fork. It's pretty ready for pull request to the main repository but I'm not sure Rainmeter team wants it :)

[balala]

This is, I think, a pretty interesting plugin. The most useful property of it seems to be the possibility to paste an older string/file from the clipboard.
Congratulations and keep working on it!

[Virginityrocks]

A couple of things like being able to count the number of items on the clipboard, or substitute a blank clip with a string would be nice.

[jsmorley]

zzeneg,

This needs to be turned into a .rmskin so a normal user can install it.

[eclectic-tech]

OP hasn't been around for almost a year, so I rewrote the demo skin, made some changes to make it more useable, and included the dll's in the @Resources folder ( x32 & x64 for redistribution).

DA Site Download

[eclectic-tech]

[Update 11/2016]
My original demo was not the prettiest thing (too dark and minimal features),
so I did an update for this cool plugin by zzeneg that is 'lighter' and with more features...

cb+.png

Manage your Clips with ClipBoard+

Lists all your recent clip types for quick access:
+ Text Clips
+ Image Clips
+ File Clips
+ Folder Clips

Features:
- Scale to any size
- Display Auto-Expands to show all available Clips (Large clips will display first 5 lines of clip)
- Set Active Clip (Moves to top and is highlighted in green)
- Delete Old Clips (Any unselected clip)
- Hide/Show the Clips List (left-click Title)
- Toggle Skin as TopMost Position (Middle-click Title)

Also available from my DA site

[LGP123]

Is there a ways to stop the plugin (measure) of updating the value/ to store the value.
Thanks

[eclectic-tech]

Is there a ways to stop the plugin (measure) of updating the value/ to store the value.
Thanks

Not sure what you need... it saves the last 15 copied items (as long as the skin is active).

It would be possible to use the !WriteKeyValue bang in an OnChangeAction of any measure to write the value to an external file, but then those values would have to be managed and somehow added when wanted.

[LGP123]

But if the stored item is an image (with printscreen), it won't restore the correct data isn't it ?

[eclectic-tech]

But if the stored item is an image (with printscreen), it won't restore the correct data isn't it ?

You are right, that would only work for text...
I still don't understand what you hope to achieve by a "save" in relation to this plugin; if I want to save a certain clip, I would save it in the program I use it in.