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Pasteboard wraps the OS X system pasteboard. Pasteboard allows you to add and retrieve multiple items and multiple item flavors to the pasteboard unlike pbpaste and pbcopy which only allow text.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

• Supports multiple pasteboards

• Returns data with the proper encoding

• Built in library of types in Pasteboard::Type

• Does not understand type conformance (Pasteboard::Type::IMAGE will not retrieve a Pasteboard::Type::JPEG)

SYNOPSIS:

require 'pasteboard'

pasteboard = Pasteboard.new

Adding a URL to the clipboard:

pasteboard.put_url 'http://blog.segment7.net', 'my blog'

Adding a JPEG with URL to the clipboard:

pasteboard.put_jpeg_url jpeg, 'http://example', 'my cool jpeg'

Adding other data to the clipboard (TIFF + URL):

item = [
  [Pasteboard::Type::TIFF,     tiff],
  [Pasteboard::Type::URL,      url],
  [Pasteboard::Type::URL_NAME, url],
  [Pasteboard::Type::UTF_8,    url],
]

pasteboard.put item

Retrieving data from the clipboard:

require 'pasteboard'

pb = Pasteboard.new

pb.first # => all flavors, see Pasteboard#[]

pb.first Pasteboard::Type::TIFF # => TIFF data

See also sample/image.rb and sample/dump.rb