iOS and macOS have a built in feature called Universal Clipboard that syncs the clipboard's content across devices using iCloud. NSPasteboard.general.clearContents() NSPasteboard.general.writeObje...

Previously, I was using the following to discover e-mail meta-data from a drag & dropped e-mail(/-thread) from Mail.app. if let filenames = draggingInfo.namesOfPromisedFilesDropped(atDestinat...

I have a one-section collection view and would like to implement Drag and Drop to allow reordering of the items. The CollectionViewItem has several textviews showing properties form my Parameter ob...

How do you Copy a string to Clipboard in macOS 10.12 with Xcode 8 and Swift 3? I am not able to find any reference.

I've read Apple's Pasteboard Programming Guide, but it doesn't answer a particular question I have. I'm trying to write a Cocoa application (for OS X, not iOS) that will keep track of everything t...

I need to get the URLs of all files dragged/dropped into my application from Finder. I have a Cocoa app running on 10.6 which does this by using the new 10.6 NSPasteboard APIs which handle multipl...

NSFilenamesPboardType got deprecated on 10.14 and the suggestion is to use NSPasteboardTypeFileURL. This gives me filename as file:///.file/id=6571367.12885025918 and NSWorkspace is unable to...

I'm having a really difficult time trying to get NSPasteboard to work, so forgive me for my lack of understanding. All I want is a simple way to write and retrieve from the pasteboard a NSUInteger...

I'm a beginner with Swift, and I'm trying to figure out how can I read what has been copied to the clipboard On macOS (Swift 3)? I've searched a lot but can't seem to find anything that works. A f...

maybe it's been a long night but I am not able to understand how to check the clipboard for strings I have been reading the NSPasteboard documentation.. could some one help me out?

I am working on a macOS application that involves creating a folder in a temporary directory. How can I allow users to drag a folder icon off of the Cocoa app and onto their desktop (or into Finde...

Ok, Here's the code I'm using : if let image = NSImage(pasteboard: pasteboard){ //.. } And I have 3 ways where images come into the app: If the image is dragged to the window, and using the ...

Several OSX clipboard managers from AppStore show the ability to determine the source-application of content that was copied to the clipboard. I am writing some simple clipboard observer and would...

In a Mac OS X app (Cocoa), I'm copying some images from my app to others using a NSDraggingSession. The NSDraggingItem makes use of an object that implements the protocol NSPasteboardItemDataProvid...

I'm automating a copy command to place some text on the pasteboard every second or so - unfortunately this is my only way of accessing the text, which is in another application. After copying, I ac...

I processed drag operation from browser view to custom view.It work well in snow lepoard,but not in Mountain Lion with sandbox. in browser view: NSMutableArray* urls = [[[NSMutableArray alloc] i...

I have a faceless Mac OS X app which needs to copy selection from other apps. I achieve this by simulating CMD+C keystrokes. It works perfectly. But there is a, I think it's critical, side effect. ...

I have read about NSPasteBoard in the Apple documentation, and how it allows for applications to write into the PasteBoard and allow other applications to read that text and use it. Could someone ...