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SDL_GetClipboardText(3)

SDL_GetClipboardText3

Get utf-8 text from the clipboard.

Usage

char * SDL_GetClipboardText(void);

Header file

Defined in SDL3/SDL_clipboard.h

Overview

This functions returns an empty string if there was not enough memory left for a copy of the clipboard's content.

Return value

Returns the clipboard text on success or an empty string on failure; call SDL_GetError () for more information. This should be freed with SDL_free () when it is no longer needed.

Thread safety

This function should only be called on the main thread.

Availability

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.

From libsdl3-doc 3.2.10+ds-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.