Closed Bug 532606 Opened 16 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Provide a chrome-level API to monitor clipboard changes

Categories

(Core :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: ryanli, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091202 Minefield/3.7a1pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091202 Minefield/3.7a1pre Currently there're no ways to monitor clipboard changes. `commandupdater` with `events` attribute set to `clipboard' indeed can monitor UI clipboard changes, but cannot be triggered by nsIClipboard events. Setting an inteval for watching clipboard is resource-consuming, and cannot detect copying the content that's already in the clipboard. Besides, this method is ugly. So I wonder if a method could be implemented for monitoring all clipboard changes? Reproducible: Always
-> enhancement FWIW, I couldn't understand without a bit of research your rationale (what is and what is not possible now). In any way, if you want to move forward on this, you'll have to write up a proposal, discuss if it would be accepted, then write an implementation.
Severity: major → enhancement
Summary: Provide a method to monitor clipboard change → Provide a chrome-level API to monitor clipboard changes
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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