从 Electron 中的系统剪贴板复制/粘贴

Question

I'm building a simple electron app to show some text on the screen on top of everything else. There is a keyboard shortcut that opens a pop-up with text. I want to add one little function. The best case scenario would be: I select some text wherever on my computer and press a dedicated keyboard shortcut and this text shows up in the pop-up. It copies the text and pastes it in the app. I guess it will be problematic for safety reasons (coping from system clipboard) but maybe there is a way around it? Is it possible to do it? Is there a walk-around that will be similar to the one I described?

In other words, now I need 3 steps: ctrl+C (to copy selected text) ctrl+M (to open the app) ctrl+V (to paste it in the app). Can I reduce it to only one step with only my dedicated keyboard shortcut or to two steps: Ctrl+C + Ctrl+M?

Thanks!

Answer 1

you can create an app where the window is not showing ( use parameter show of browser-window ),
maybe create a trayicon to visualise that the app is running.

Than define in your app a global shortcut (Ctrl+M) global-shortcuts in electron .

In your shortcut callback set window to visible and get the clipboard content.
Electron has an api for that, you can find it here

than just add the text to the window