Re:Is there a maximum size for Windows clipboard data?
by com2kid on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:45PM
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I've had the pleasure of looking at the Windows source code for the clipboard.
Insanely well engineered. It can perform miracles of computing. It damn well has to.
> I can take a screenshot of my Firefox with "PrtScn" button (moving a bitmap of the page into the Clipboard), paste it into Microsoft Paint, edit it a bit, and then copy/paste that into my Discord chat screen for commentary.
All without you worrying about supported image formats or color space encodings! It is insane! Copy from Firefox and then paste into a program that expects 16bit color and it'll probably work. The clipboard stores data in so many duplicate formats and can convert between so many formats, it is nuts.
Insanely well engineered. It can perform miracles of computing. It damn well has to.
> I can take a screenshot of my Firefox with "PrtScn" button (moving a bitmap of the page into the Clipboard), paste it into Microsoft Paint, edit it a bit, and then copy/paste that into my Discord chat screen for commentary.
All without you worrying about supported image formats or color space encodings! It is insane! Copy from Firefox and then paste into a program that expects 16bit color and it'll probably work. The clipboard stores data in so many duplicate formats and can convert between so many formats, it is nuts.