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Provide meaningful error message when clipboard format is unavailble #56

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Provide meaningful error message when clipboard format is unavailble #56

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use meaningful error message when clipboard format is unavailable
scottkipferOlive Mar 8, 2021
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export format unavailable error
scottkipferOlive Mar 8, 2021
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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions clipboard_windows.go
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Expand Up @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
package clipboard

import (
"errors"
"runtime"
"syscall"
"time"
Expand All @@ -33,6 +34,8 @@ var (
globalLock = kernel32.NewProc("GlobalLock")
globalUnlock = kernel32.NewProc("GlobalUnlock")
lstrcpy = kernel32.NewProc("lstrcpyW")

ErrFormatUnavailable = errors.New("clipboard format is unavailable")
)

// waitOpenClipboard opens the clipboard, waiting for up to a second to do so.
Expand All @@ -56,8 +59,8 @@ func readAll() (string, error) {
// Otherwise if the goroutine switch thread during execution (which is a common practice), the OpenClipboard and CloseClipboard will happen on two different threads, and it will result in a clipboard deadlock.
runtime.LockOSThread()
defer runtime.UnlockOSThread()
if formatAvailable, _, err := isClipboardFormatAvailable.Call(cfUnicodetext); formatAvailable == 0 {
return "", err
if formatAvailable, _, _ := isClipboardFormatAvailable.Call(cfUnicodetext); formatAvailable == 0 {
return "", ErrFormatUnavailable
}
err := waitOpenClipboard()
if err != nil {
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