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* ## Basic use (text)
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- * Obtaining and publishing simple text to the system clipboard is as easy
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- * as calling SDL_GetClipboardText() and SDL_SetClipboardText(),
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- * respectively. These deal with C strings in UTF-8 encoding. Data
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- * transmission and encoding conversion is completely managed by SDL.
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+ * Obtaining and publishing simple text to the system clipboard is as easy as
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+ * calling SDL_GetClipboardText() and SDL_SetClipboardText(), respectively.
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+ * These deal with C strings in UTF-8 encoding. Data transmission and encoding
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+ * conversion is completely managed by SDL.
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*
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* ## Clipboard callbacks (data other than text)
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*
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* Things get more complicated when the clipboard contains something other
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- * than text. Not only can the system clipboard contain data of any type,
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- * in some cases it can contain the same data in different formats! For
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- * example, an image painting app might let the user copy a graphic to the
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- * clipboard, and offers it in .BMP, .JPG, or .PNG format for other apps to
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- * consume.
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+ * than text. Not only can the system clipboard contain data of any type, in
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+ * some cases it can contain the same data in different formats! For example,
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+ * an image painting app might let the user copy a graphic to the clipboard,
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+ * and offers it in .BMP, .JPG, or .PNG format for other apps to consume.
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*
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* Obtaining clipboard data ("pasting") like this is a matter of calling
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* SDL_GetClipboardData() and telling it the mimetype of the data you want.
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* rather the mimetypes it is willing to provide and a callback function.
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* During the callback, the app will generate the data. This allows massive
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* data sets to be provided to the clipboard, without any data being copied
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- * before it is explicitly requested. More specifically, it allows an app
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- * to offer data in multiple formats without providing a copy of all of
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- * them upfront. If the app has an image that it could provide in PNG or JPG
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+ * before it is explicitly requested. More specifically, it allows an app to
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+ * offer data in multiple formats without providing a copy of all of them
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+ * upfront. If the app has an image that it could provide in PNG or JPG
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* format, it doesn't have to encode it to either of those unless and until
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* something tries to paste it.
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*
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* The X11 and Wayland video targets have a concept of the "primary selection"
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* in addition to the usual clipboard. This is generally highlighted (but not
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* explicitly copied) text from various apps. SDL offers APIs for this through
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- * SDL_GetPrimarySelectionText() and SDL_SetPrimarySelectionText().
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- * SDL offers these APIs on platforms without this concept, too, but only so
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- * far that it will keep a copy of a string that the app sets for later
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- * retrieval; the operating system will not ever attempt to change the
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- * string externally if it doesn't support a primary selection.
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+ * SDL_GetPrimarySelectionText() and SDL_SetPrimarySelectionText(). SDL offers
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+ * these APIs on platforms without this concept, too, but only so far that it
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+ * will keep a copy of a string that the app sets for later retrieval; the
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+ * operating system will not ever attempt to change the string externally if
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+ * it doesn't support a primary selection.
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*/
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#ifndef SDL_clipboard_h_
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