def SetClipboardData(type, content):
"""
Modeled after http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms649016%28VS.85%29.aspx#_win32_Copying_Information_to_the_Clipboard
"""
allocators = {
clipboard.CF_TEXT: ctypes.create_string_buffer,
clipboard.CF_UNICODETEXT: ctypes.create_unicode_buffer,
}
if not type in allocators:
raise NotImplementedError("Only text types are supported at this time")
# allocate the memory for the data
content = allocators[type](content)
flags = memory.GMEM_MOVEABLE
size = ctypes.sizeof(content)
handle_to_copy = windll.kernel32.GlobalAlloc(flags, size)
with LockedMemory(handle_to_copy) as lm:
ctypes.memmove(lm.data_ptr, content, size)
result = clipboard.SetClipboardData(type, handle_to_copy)
if result is None:
raise WindowsError()
def raw_data(handle):
return LockedMemory(handle).data