Create clipboard in OpenOffice/LibreOffice format

[grrr1234]

Hi, is there any documentation about how to write to the clipboard (or read from it) using the OpenOffice / LibreOffice specific formats?

I think those formats would be:

• application/x-openoffice-embed-source-xml;windows_formatname="Star Embed Source (XML)"
• application/x-openoffice-objectdescriptor-xml;windows_formatname="Star Object Descriptor (XML)";classname="8BC6B165-B1B2-4EDD-aa47-dae2ee689dd6";typename="LibreOffice 6.4 Text Document";viewaspect="1";width="16999";height="2995";posx="0";posy="0"
• application/x-libreoffice-internal-id-4458

I would like to generate and insert elements that are unique to OpenOffice, so plaintext or RTF or HTML won't work.

Thanks for an answer!

[JeJe]

There's copy and paste using the macro recorder for code. If you're copying several formats are put on the clipboard, which will include the native one. And if you're pasting I presume the native format will be chosen if available. So I don't see the need to do anything special for either?

Some info here though:

viewtopic.php?t=93562

https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/com ... board.html

[grrr1234]

Sorry, I meant setting the clipboard from an external application, where the OpenOffice API isn't available. Like a Java, JavaScript or Python app. I'd have this external app running over its own data, it'd write to the clipboard using the OpenOffice format, and I could then do a paste command inside the OpenOffice app and have the data there in a perfect layout.

[JeJe]

I don't know how to do that and can only guess that it might need reinventing a very complicated wheel.

This sounds like it might be an xy problem. If you say a bit more about what you're trying to do you might get suggestions for a better solution. Open a hidden LO document and format it through automation perhaps?

[Mountaineer]

... from an external application, where the OpenOffice API isn't available. Like a Java, JavaScript or Python app. ...

You are aware, it is possible to communicate with Open/LibreOffice via a port/socket, if AOO/LO is started with --accept. You can then use the api via XSCRIPTCONTEXT