Clipboard History Programs, No Greenshot
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Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
Gliffy Diagrams
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Seong-Young Her April 20, 2020 at 12:34 AM
Had it working with Ditto for a while, and the same issue began again. The issue persists with the 1.3.75 unstable released 3 days ago.
Robin Krom April 11, 2020 at 2:31 PMEdited
@Seong-Young Her It's nice that you report the same issue, maybe you can try the experimental version as it seems nobody did so far.
Seong-Young Her April 11, 2020 at 10:29 AM
Having the same issue with ClipClip, which worked fine with Greenshot until about a week ago. Now it fails to copy sometimes, seemingly at random.
Robin Krom March 4, 2020 at 6:44 AM
BTW.. as the clipboard is such a horrible technology, I’ve actually started working on an experiment to write my own clipboard viewer. The technology I’ve used for this, will be used in Greenshot 2.x, but I might be able to back-port (reuse) some of it to solve some issues with Greenshot 1.3
Robin Krom March 4, 2020 at 6:41 AM
The Windows Clipboard is a pain in the *ss! It allows applications to provide multiple formats at the same time. The issue is that as soon as an application outputs Windows Bitmap or DIBV5 (I didn’t come up with the name), you will loose transparency with many applications even if there is a better format available (e.g. PNG)
But it might be that there is some kind of bug, that when certain formats are used or not used. I hope to be able to reproduce this behavior, so I can find a solution. It might also have to do with the old .NET Framework we were using, I’ve started a new round of “beta” versions which are based on newer .NET Framework versions. This is the current: https://github.com/greenshot/greenshot/releases/tag/v1.3.55
Hi guys. I have been testing some clipboard history programs to track recently copied items. It appears Greenshot is not compatible with these applications as they work fine if I am coping files, images, and text but as soon as I take a greenshot, send it to the clipboard, nothing is there to paste.
I have tried this with Ditto and Clipdary. At first I thought it was the history program so I tried a different one but unfortunately the other program acted the same way with Greenshot. It must be the way Greenshot sends items to the clipboard.
Is this a known issue or an incompatibility?