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Clipboard

Clipboard reads and writes the Windows clipboard.

Full signatures for dolphin_desktop._clipboard.Clipboard are generated from the package docstrings — use help() in Python or autocomplete in your IDE.

Usage

from dolphin_desktop import Clipboard

# Text
Clipboard.set_text("hello")
text = Clipboard.get_text()     # "hello"

# Image
img = Clipboard.get_image()     # PIL.Image or None

# Clear
Clipboard.clear()

Notes

  • Uses win32clipboard (pywin32) - Windows only.
  • Locator.text() uses Clipboard internally as a fallback for controls that don't expose text via UIA (e.g., Windows 11 Notepad's Document control).
  • Clipboard is process-global. Parallel tests that use the clipboard simultaneously can interfere with each other - avoid parallel test runs that rely on clipboard operations.