[OT] DragDropToClipboard 1.0.4 Released

[Mr Flibble]

Hi!

My C++ utility DragDropToClipboard 1.0.4 for Windows has been released!

DragDropToClipboard is a simple lightweight utility for Windows that
copies to the clipboard the full paths of files you drag/drop onto it.

Features:

* Drag/drop selected files in Explorer to the DragDropToClipboard window
and the full paths of the files will be copied to the clipboard as
Unicode text.

* You can also copy paths by right-clicking file selections in Explorer
and selecting Copy (or use Ctrl+C keyboard shortcut) and then
left-clicking the DragDropToClipboard window.

* An "auto copy" mode whereby paths are automatically copied to the
clipboard when files are copied to the clipboard in Explorer (no extra
dragging or clicking required).

* regex string replacement on each path

* Information messages displaying how many file paths have been copied.

Screenshot: http://i42.co.uk/stuff/DragDropToClipboard.png
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIKR88F_4co

/Flibble

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[Mr Flibble]

On 07/02/2018 23:13, Mr Flibble wrote:
> Hi!
>
> My C++ utility DragDropToClipboard 1.0.4 for Windows has been released!

Oh and it's free and open source.

[Alf P. Steinbach]

On 08.02.2018 00:13, Mr Flibble wrote:
> Hi!
>
> My C++ utility DragDropToClipboard 1.0.4 for Windows has been released!
>
> DragDropToClipboard is a simple lightweight utility for Windows that
> copies to the clipboard the full paths of files you drag/drop onto it.
>
> Features:
>
> * Drag/drop selected files in Explorer to the DragDropToClipboard window
> and the full paths of the files will be copied to the clipboard as
> Unicode text.

I guess this means that NeoGFX (whatever the name) now has good working
support for drag n' drop.

That's very nice, congrats.

But note that copying a path to the clipboard is already in the Windows
shift-rightclick menu, menu item “Copy as path”. Also, for a path in the
active codepage one can drag the filesystem item to a console window.
And third, in the old days, before that Windows machinery (or before I
discovered it, I'm not sure, but I think it was before that machinery),
a reasonable UI for “copy path” was to add a program to the right click
menu: it receives the path as command line and can just copy it.

> * You can also copy paths by right-clicking file selections in Explorer
> and selecting Copy (or use Ctrl+C keyboard shortcut) and then
> left-clicking the DragDropToClipboard window.

Yes, but easier to just hold down the Shift key in the first place.

I know, it's insane of Microsoft to hide that menu item behind a
semi-secret keyboard+mouse combo, one can't guess that off-hand. :(

> * An "auto copy" mode whereby paths are automatically copied to the
> clipboard when files are copied to the clipboard in Explorer (no extra
> dragging or clicking required).

That's really nice. :)

> * regex string replacement on each path

Oh noes.

> * Information messages displaying how many file paths have been copied.
>
> Screenshot: http://i42.co.uk/stuff/DragDropToClipboard.png
> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIKR88F_4co

Cheers!,

- Alf

[Paavo Helde]

On 8.02.2018 8:12, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> On 08.02.2018 00:13, Mr Flibble wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> My C++ utility DragDropToClipboard 1.0.4 for Windows has been released!
>>
>> DragDropToClipboard is a simple lightweight utility for Windows that
>> copies to the clipboard the full paths of files you drag/drop onto it.

>> [...]

>> * regex string replacement on each path
>
> Oh noes.

I guess regex could be used for changing C:\Foo\Bar to C:/Foo/Bar or
/cygdrive/c/Foo/Bar, these are the operations I sometimes need but have
not bothered to automate.