Awesome, thank you so much for that info. That makes my tail chasing make more sense! Thanks for saving me from additional posterior extension pursuit.
Last question I think, how do I put a file path reference on the clipboard similar to in explorer selecting a few files and hitting control c ? I think I had tested that with discord and it worked, but not 100% on that. On Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 11:57 AM Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote: > Mriswithe wrote: > > > > I was looking at making a little helper app for Windows that will take > > an image on your clipboard and ensure it is under 8MB for posting to > > discord, and if it isn't, use Pillow to resize it until it is the > > right size. > > > > I can use Pillow's ImageGrab.grabclipboard() to get the image off the > > clipboard, but I am a little confused about writing it back. I have > > been back and forth between the pywin32 source and the windows docs > > for the windows C API, but I don't have any previous experience or > > context to know what some pieces are intended to do. > > > > I found an example to write to it from StackOverflow > > (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34322132/copy-image-to-clipboard > > <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34322132/copy-image-to-clipboard>), > > > but I was wanting to dig a little deeper to see what formats other > > than BMP I could use to put on the clipboard. My ignorance of C++ and > > the Windows APIs and hell the Python C API is really biting me here. > > You can't. You have to write it as a DIB (Device Independent Bitmap), > which is the format in a .BMP file. > > The Windows clipboard was designed in roughly 1986, before GIF, before > JPEG and way, way before PNG. The clipboard is designed for universal > interchange, so it really does need to spec the lowest common > denominator. If they allowed PNGs, then all of the graphics application > in the world would have to be modified to decode PNG data. > > So, to make your app work, save the result as a BMP. > > > > Is there a bit of an idiots example guide for how to say, put a PNG on > > the clipboard or a JPG? Some example code? There is a ton of useful > > info in the pywin32 repo, but I haven't found anything that has made > > this click for me. > > There is no idiots guide, because it cannot be done. Well, technically > speaking you can put arbitrary binary data into the clipboard, but other > graphics applications will not be able to read it. When they look for > image data, they look for format CF_DIB, and that means a .BMP. > > -- > Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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