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9. Working with the Clipboard

Joshua M Willman1  
(1)
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
 

One of the major benefits of GUIs is the ability to create programs that can interact with your system and other applications. This concept goes beyond opening and saving files, or printing images.

The clipboard is a location in your computer’s memory that is used to temporarily store data that you have copied or cut from an application. The clipboard can store a number of different types of data, including text, images, and GIFs. Information that is stored on your system’s clipboard can be pasted into other applications ...

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