provides low-level access to the contents of the drag and drop clipboard.
# Metadata
Platforms: desktop OS: mac, windows, linux Introduced: 8.0 Security:
# Syntax
set the rawDragData[key] to data
# Examples
put the keys of the rawDragData
set the rawDragData["text/plain;charset=utf-8"] \ to textEncode("Hello, World!", "UTF-8" ) -- Linux set the rawDragData["CF_UNICODE"] \ to textEncode("Hello, World!", "UTF-16" ) -- Windows set the rawDragData["public.utf8-plain-text"] \ to textEncode("Hello, World!", "UTF-8" ) -- OSX
# Description
Use the rawClipboardData to gain low-level access to the system drag and drop clipboard.
This property should only be used if you require low-level access; the fullDragData is more appropriate for most uses.
As a low-level feature, platform differences are not hidden. In particular, the form of the keys of the rawClipboardData are platform-specific, but can be summarised as:
- Windows: arbitrary strings but keys of the form CF_xxx correspond to the clipboard formats defined by Windows itself - OSX: Uniform Type Identifiers (UTIs) with an extension: OSTypes/MIME-types can be used by prefixing the key with com.apple.ostype:/public.mime-type: - Linux: arbitrary strings (X11 atoms) but, by convention, MIME types are used
>*Tip:* All contents of the rawDragData are binary - use the > textEncode/textDecode functions to convert to/from the appropriate > encoding.
# Tags
# See
- **property:** dragData, fullDragData, rawClipboardData - **function:** textDecode, textEncode - **glossary:** clipboard, drag and drop