IRJET-Clipboard Manager

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
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“Clipboard Manager”
Ms. Kiran Bahaniya1, Ms. Komal Dhote2, Ms. Laxmi ogale3, Prof. Ashish Palandurkar4,
Prof. Mahvash Khan5
1,2,3 Students, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering, Nagpur institute of technology,
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
4,5 Professor, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering, Nagpur institute of technology,
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
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Abstract - The most important characteristic of a clipboard
manager is its ability to save time. Clipboard managers allow
users to store a history of previously copied content such as
text, files, Rigid and images—whereas the built in Windows
Clipboard only allows for storage of one item at a time—thus
allowing for speedy access of such content. This comes in
especially handy when carrying out repetitive dataentrytasks
such as entering repeat formula as well as storing images in a
database for further processing. Other uses include storing
common sections of code (for programmers) and storing
online form information. Some of us routinely carry out such
repetitive tasks given our professions, habits or hobbies and
the ability to cut down on the monotony of switching backand
forth between desired content is a valuable asset. Users can
choose exactly how many clips they want to be stored in the
history. There is a choice of how many clips are storedbybeing
made immediately available on the popup menu and, how
many are stored out of sight but still remain in the program
cache. This is useful as not all of the clips need to be
immediately available for pasting and can be adjusted based
on the habits of users. Users can also make certain clips
permanently available and store them in different groups.
Basic cut and paste gets the job done, but if you're going for
speed and efficiency, you'll need a clipboard manger to keep
your copy-full strong. Keeping all the most frequentlyusedtext
snippets in the Windows clipboard does make sense.
Key Words: Clipboard, Clips, Clipboardmanager, Buffer,
Copy-Cut-Paste, Logs.
1. INTRODUCTION:
The clipboard is a software facility used for short-
term data storage and/or data transfer between documents
or applications, via copy and paste operations. It is most
commonly a part of a GUI environment and is usually
implemented as an anonymous, temporary data buffer that
can be accessed from most or all programs within the
environment via defined programming interfaces. A typical
application accesses clipboard functionalitybymappinguser
input (key bindings, menu selections, etc.) to these
interfaces.
The default Windows clipboard has two very obvious
limitations: it can store only one item at a time and it is
cleared every time the computer restarts. Clipboard
replacement utilitieswill notonly solvethoseproblems,they
will give you much more power over your clipboard.
These utilities provide a clipboard history and they come
with additional features such as built-in text editor,
additional information about the clip (date & time, origin,
user name), launch actions (such as Google search) and
more.
Because they replace such a basic system function,clipboard
managershave to be simple to use, but that dependson how
you use your computer. There is no one-size-fits-all when it
comes to clipboard managers, so I suggest you try some of
those freeware products for yourself and find the one that
suits you the best.
Here I came up with a list of specifications to evaluate
clipboard managers:
 Simple: Easy to setup and use. It should work as
intended right out of the box, without any tweaks.
 Reliable: It can handle everything the default
Windowsclipboard can handle. It should belighton
resources and fully compatible with the latest
versions of Windows.
 Accessible: Easy to use with cursor-only,keyboard-
only or a mix of both. It also needs a nice and clear
interface.
 Powerful and customizable: Provide extra
featuresfor advanced userswho needmoreoptions
than simply copy, cut and paste.
2. Methodology:
Modern GUIs often provide a clipboard manager
which supports multiple cut and paste transactions. In this
model the clipboard is treated as a stack or scrap book, with
new cuts and copies being placed on top of the list of recent
transactions. The standard paste operation copies the most
recent transaction, while specialized pastes provide access
to the other stored transactions. These managers generally
also provide a window that displays the transaction history

and allows the user to select earlier copies,editthem,change
their format and even search amongst them.
In Windows Clipboard Utility like Clip diary in which it
maintain the history of copied files and when user want to
paste any files from diary of the copied files firstly you need
to open the diary by pressing the key ctrl+D thenitwillshow
you all copied files.
So here I am going to overcome this limitations by providing
Buffer for copy data whatever the user copied data it stored
into a buffer with additional features such as built-in text
editor, additional information about the clip(date & time,
origin, user name), launch actions (such as
Fig 1.1 clipboard operations
3. Literature Survey:
In human-computer interaction, cut and paste and copyand
paste are related commands that offer a user-
interface interaction technique for transferring
text, data, files or objects from a sourcetoadestination.Most
ubiquitously, users require the ability to cut and paste
sections of plain text. The cut command removes
the selected data from its original position, while
the copy command creates a duplicate; in both cases the
selected data is placed in a clipboard. The data in the
clipboard is later inserted in the position where
the paste command is issued.
This interaction technique has close associations with
related techniques in graphical user interfaces that
use pointing devices such as a computermouse (by dragand
drop, for example).The capability to replicate information
with ease, changing it between contexts and applications,
involves privacy concerns because of the risks of disclosure
when handling sensitive information Terms
like cloning, copy forward, carry forward, or re-use refer to
the dissemination of such information through documents,
and may be subject to regulation by administrative bodies
The term "cut and paste" comesfrom the traditionalpractice
in manuscript-editing’s whereby people would literally cut
paragraphs from a page with scissors and physically paste
them onto another page. This practice remained standard
into the 1980s. Stationery stores formerly sold "editing
scissors" with blades long enough to cut
An 8½"-wide page. The advent of photocopiers made the
practice easier and more flexible.
The act of copying/transferring text from one part of a
computer-based document ("buffer") to a different location
within the same or different
The act of copying/transferring text from one part of a
computer-based document ("buffer") to a different location
within the same or different Computer-based documentwas
a part of the earliest on-line computer editors. As soon as
computer data entry moved from punch-cardsto onlinefiles
(in the mid/late 1960s) there were "commands" for
accomplishing this operation. This mechanism was often
used to transfer frequently-used commandsor text snippets
from additional buffers into the document, as was the case
with the QEDeditor.
The earliest editors, since they weredesignedfor"hardcopy"
terminal, provided keyboard commands copy "Terminals,
provided keyboard commands to delineate contiguous
regions of text, remove such regions, or move them to some
other location in the file. Since moving a region of text
required first removing it from its initial location and then
inserting it into its new location various schemes had to be
invented to allow for this multi-step process to be specified
by the user.
Often this was done by the provision of a 'move' command,
but some text editors required that the text be first put into
some temporary location for later retrieval/placement. In
1983, the Apple Lisa became the first text editing system to
call that temporary location "the clipboard".
4. Data Extraction Process by using Clipboard:
The below figure definesstagesrequired for extractingdata.
 First, clipboard can identify the relevant functions.
 Secondly, by according to its functions data can be
extracted from those functions.
 Then data retrieved is classified in differentformats
and if the required format is found in the clipboard
then it is appended.
 Finally the identified data is extracted and used
depending on applications.

5. Implementation:
Using above classes and methods the data can be
obtained from the clipboard. [1] The below algorithmcanbe
used as the basic layout for the working of extraction.
Clipboard c; c=getSystemClipboard (); if (Data Flavor is
Available) Get data (Data Flavor);
e.g.
Clipboard c;
StringSelectioncnt= new String Selection (“Data”);
6. Analysis of problem:
Clipboard has very obvious different issues [3] firstly it
store one item at a time on clipboard memory if you had
copy another item it overwritten on previous item.
 If you turn off or rest art the system it clears
memory every time if in case you want previous
copied contents you will be miss that contents.
 Clipboard is a temporary storage [3] area for
information that enables applications to transfer
data or moved one place and plan to use
somewhere else.
 You can select text, graphics or anything and then
use the cut or copy commands to move your
selection to the clipboard whatever information is
copy is store on the clipboard memory, whereitwill
be stored until youuse the paste command toinsert
elsewhere.
 If you had copy another item it overwritten on
previous item.
7. Features
Features of Clipboard
 Multiple buffersand ability to combinesplitandrun
their contents.
 Choosing which buffer “cut or copy operations
should store data in”.
 Clipboard can save different types of data like
handling formatted text tabular data, data objects
media contents and URLs searching of saved data.
 Choosing which buffer (s) “paste “operations.
 Permanent storage for copy data.
 Need not concern about loss of data because data is
located on hard disk.
8. Limitations of Clipboard:
Copy operation does not copy all sub-folders when
undertaking very large partitions, of 400 GBormore. Firstly
it can store only one item at a time.
 Secondly it is erased every time the computer
restarts.
 Clipboard saves temporary data while operating
system is running. After that each shut down
process, the content of clipboard are removed for
maintaining efficiency of operating system.so that,
the users are unable to retrieve data of preceding
copied data.
 Windows clipboard cannot be used to process text
that contains null character.
9. Existing work:
 Clipboard has the mechanism of share the
information between the applications.[1]
 It first seemed in Windows 3.1, after that working
has greatly increased.
 After that copying more complex data than text to
the clipboard, Windows varieties available several
APIs which make extraction much more difficult.
 Dynamic data exchange (DDE) is very useful
method for extracting the data.
 In 1990, Microsoft windowsreleased object linking
and embedding (OLE) enabling compound files.
Compound files have most of the file in primary
format (for e.g. a Microsoft Word 2.2 Clipboard
classes and Methods: While there is a large amount
of documentation on how to use and access the
windows clipboard via application program
interfaces (APIs), [1] there is document on the
methods used other than APIs. Extending classes
like Clipboard we can access the data stored in the
clipboard using its different methods like as:
 GetSystemClipboard () is called to retrieve the
pointer to the clipboard data. This provides handle
to the or during drag and drop operation.
 Flavor Listeners() may be registered onaninstance
of the Clipboard properties.
 The Toolkit ass is the main class which is use to get
the system clipboard.
 A Data Flavor () provides Meta information about
data. Data Flavors is typically used to flavors are
classified those depending on file formats.

 Data Flavor Available method is method to check
whether the data flavor of the data in the clipboard
is in the list of valid data flavors.
 Logger and clipboard manager which fulfils user
requirements with easy interface.
11. References:
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