[QGIS-Developer] Accessing clipboard from PyQGis

[C Hamilton]

I don't know if this helps but I copy data from QGIS onto the clipboard in
this manner. I'm sure you can go the other way as well.

from qgis.PyQt.QtWidgets import QApplication
text = 'This is a test'
clipboard = QApplication.clipboard()
clipboard.setText(text)

Calvin

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:36 AM Martin Pergler <mp at pergler.org> wrote:

> Can one access the internal QGIS clipboard (as defined in
> qgsclipboard.h/cpp) in a python script or plugin within QGis desktop?
>
> I've tried QgsApplication.clipboard() and QApplication.clipboard, both of
> which return a PyQt5 QClipboard object rather than a QgsClipboard.
>
> In a plugin I'm developing, I'd love to make use of features copied to the
> clipboard in native format (e.g. via the copyOf() method of QgsClipboard).
> However, if I get a QClipboard I only have access to a text()
> representation, the WKT or geoJson format of the features depending
> on Settings -> Options -> Data sources -> Copy features as... The same
> is also accessible as -- apparently -- the only MIME type via
> .mimeData().formats().
>
> I'm running QGis version 3.6.3 on Win10. (Note this is dup of
> https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/322878/accessing-internal-qgis-clipboard-in-python that
> I asked a week ago).
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Martin Pergler
> mp at pergler.org
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