segeljakt / pasteboard

CLI and Rust bindings for interacting with the macOS pasteboard.

pasteboard

This crate provides both a CLI and Rust bindings for interacting with the macOS pasteboard.

CLI

At the command-line, pasteboard introduces a pb command which can be used like:

# Copy/paste string
pb copy /path/to/foo.txt
pb paste /path/to/bar.txt

# Copy image/sound
pb copy /path/to/foo.png -t image
pb copy /path/to/foo.mp3 -t sound

Rust bindings

From Rust, pasteboard exposes a Pasteboard enum with copy and paste methods which can be used like:

use pasteboard::Pasteboard;

fn main() {
    unsafe {
        // Copy/paste string
        Pasteboard::String.copy("/path/to/foo.txt");
        Pasteboard::String.paste("/path/to/bar.txt");

        // Copy image/sound
        Pasteboard::Image.copy("/path/to/foo.png");
        Pasteboard::Sound.copy("/path/to/foo.png");
    }
}

Notes

The pb command is able to copy files as strings, images, and sounds. However, it can only paste as strings currently, but more coverage is planned in future releases.

pasteboard's Issues

building fails on Big Sur

Building fails with following error for me:

error[E0308]: mismatched types
  --> src/lib.rs:63:80
   |
63 |         if pasteboard.canReadObjectForClasses_options(class_array, options) != 0 {
   |                                                                                ^ expected `bool`, found integer

error[E0308]: mismatched types
  --> src/lib.rs:66:59
   |
66 |             NSData::writeToFile_atomically_(object, path, 0);
   |                                                           ^ expected `bool`, found integer

error: aborting due to 2 previous errors

Replacing the 0's with false seems to be the needed and appropriate edit.