Reading from the clipboard with Swift 3 on macOS

Question

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 a

Answer 1

Another solution.

class ViewController : NSViewController {

  @IBAction func pasteMenuItemAction(_ sender: NSMenuItem) {
    let p = NSPasteboard.general
    let x = p.readObjects(forClasses: [NSString.self], options: nil)
    let s = x as! [NSString]
    if 0 < s.count {
      print(s[0])
    }
  }

}

That func pasteMenuItemAction() is bound to an Edit > Paste menu item.

I use writeObjects() for Edit > Copy. So it is natural for me to use its counterpart readObjects() here.

Confirmed with Xcode 9.2, Swift 4

Added:

One of the solutions for Edit > Copy:

  @IBAction func copyMenuItemAction(_ sender: NSMenuItem) {
    let t = "Hello!"
    let p = NSPasteboard.general
    p.clearContents()
    p.writeObjects([t as NSPasteboardWriting])
  }

That func copyMenuItemAction() is bound to an Edit > Copy menu item.