Function CopyStringToClipboard

src/windows/WinUtils.cpp:199–241

}

void CopyStringToClipboard(const std::string& str)
{
	if (OpenClipboard(g_Hwnd))
	{
		EmptyClipboard();

		// This expands all of the new line characters inside str into
		// a carriagereturn-linefeed sequence.
		std::string str2;
		str2.reserve(24 + str.size());

		for (size_t i = 0; i < str.size(); i++)
		{
			if (str[i] == '\n' && (i == 0 || str[i] != '\r'))
				str2.push_back('\r');
			str2.push_back(str[i]);
		}

		LPCTSTR ctstr = ConvertCppStringToTString(str2);

		size_t stringSize = (str.length() + 1) * sizeof(TCHAR);

		// create a global buffer and fill its text in
		HGLOBAL clipbuffer;
		char* buffer;
		clipbuffer = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_DDESHARE, stringSize);
		buffer = (char*)GlobalLock(clipbuffer);
		memcpy(buffer, ctstr, stringSize);
		GlobalUnlock(clipbuffer);

		// set the clipboard data
#if UNICODE
		SetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT, clipbuffer);
#else
		SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT, clipbuffer);
#endif

		// release everything we have
		CloseClipboard();

		free((void*)ctstr);
	}
}

// Borrowed from NanoShellOS: https://github.com/iProgramMC/NanoShellOS/blob/master/src/utf8.c
#define REPLACEMENT_CHAR 0xFFFD