Can't Ctrl+C text from Android to PC

[KeronCyst]

Vysor can do this, I believe, but scrcpy v1.1 doesn't seem to be doing anything on my Huawei Honor 5X.

[rom1v]

For information, this feature would have the same implications as #8 (comment).

[paoloramos]

I've read the implications as seen in #8 comment ... but I would really love this feature :)

[garbb]

Could something like the code from clipper be used to get device clipboard text and write to PC clipboard when you press ctrl+c with scrcpy window focused?
Right now with clipper app I can do adb -s shell am broadcast -a clipper.get to clipboard contents with adb, but it would be very cool to have this feature integrated with scrcpy.

[garbb]

I though I would share the hacky solution I am using to get copying from device to PC working with scrcpy. I don't know if it is useful at all for scrcpy development but maybe it will be of use to someone.

I am using a tasker profile to send the clipboard contents to logcat any time the clipboard changes:
ClipboardToLogcat.prf.xml.txt (rename to .xml to import into tasker)

Profile: ClipboardToLogcat (27)
	Event: Variable Set [ Variable:%CLIP Value:* User Variables Only:Off ]
Enter: Anon (40)
	A1: [X] Flash [ Text:%CLIP Long:Off ] 
	A2: Run Shell [ Command:log -p v -t clipboard-BEGIN  Timeout (Seconds):0 Use Root:Off Store Output In: Store Errors In: Store Result In: ] 
	A3: Run Shell [ Command:log -p v -t clipboard  %CLIP Timeout (Seconds):0 Use Root:Off Store Output In: Store Errors In: Store Result In: ] 
	A4: Run Shell [ Command:log -p v -t clipboard-END  Timeout (Seconds):0 Use Root:Off Store Output In: Store Errors In: Store Result In: ] 

It looks like this in logcat clipboard clipboard-BEGIN clipboard-END *:S

V/clipboard-BEGIN( 2413):
V/clipboard( 2416): Line one
V/clipboard( 2416): Line two
V/clipboard( 2416): Line three
V/clipboard-END( 2419):

Then I have a script that I leave running while I am running scrcpy on my PC that continuously monitors logcat with another adb.exe instance and puts the output into the windows clipboard.

[rom1v]

I implemented it on the dev branch (see commits).

(the feature once all the preparation was done is implemented by 63c078e)

To copy from the device to the computer:

1. put something in the device clipboard (select a text, press "Copy");
2. press Ctrl+c in scrcpy;
3. paste in any application on the computer.

To make it possible, I added a socket to send controls and video stream separately (ec71a3f).

While I was there, I also implemented the other direction (c13a243), to copy from the computer to the device clipboard (without pasting), with Ctrl+Shift+v. Contrary to events injection, this preserves the UTF-8 content exactly, so the text is not broken by special characters, and can be pasted "manually" on Android. (see #413)

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I also refactored other things, in the end there are a lot of technical changes:

 48 files changed, 1406 insertions(+), 538 deletions(-)

So please test the dev branch and report any regression or other bugs 😉 Thank you.

[giorgiobeggiora]

Doesn't work on Mac (using 1.10)

[rom1v]

@giorgiobeggiora Since v1.10, copy is Cmd+C on MacOS.

Note that it copy your current Android clipboard, so you must have selected some text then press "Copy" to put some text in the clipboard.

[giorgiobeggiora]

I followed the instructions, but the copy/paste from device to mac does not work :(

[rom1v]

Do you use Android 10? #796

[giorgiobeggiora]

OnePlus 6 (A6000) with Android 9 updated to August 2019 (OxygenOS 9.0.8)

[NewUserHa]

in some app, clicked copy button, then press c-c in scrcpy to get the clipboard, then c-v on pc. it worked but only pasted part of a very long text.
would you fix? thanks!
@rom1v

[rom1v]

Hmmm, yes, it is limited to 4k:

scrcpy/app/src/device_msg.h

Line 10 in 3935660

#define DEVICE_MSG_TEXT_MAX_LENGTH 4093

scrcpy/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/DeviceMessageWriter.java

Line 10 in 3935660

public static final int CLIPBOARD_TEXT_MAX_LENGTH = 4093;

scrcpy/app/src/control_msg.h

Line 14 in 3935660

#define CONTROL_MSG_CLIPBOARD_TEXT_MAX_LENGTH 4093

scrcpy/server/src/main/java/com/genymobile/scrcpy/ControlMessageReader.java

Line 18 in 3935660

public static final int CLIPBOARD_TEXT_MAX_LENGTH = 4093;

We want some limit (to avoid arbitrary high values), but it is possible to increase (maybe to 64k to avoid changing the type?)

Could you open a separate issue, please?

[NewUserHa]

#1117

[oyekanwahab]

I implemented it on the dev branch (see commits).

(the feature once all the preparation was done is implemented by 63c078e)

To copy from the device to the computer:

1. put something in the device clipboard (select a text, press "Copy");
2. press Ctrl+c in scrcpy;
3. paste in any application on the computer.

To make it possible, I added a socket to send controls and video stream separately (ec71a3f).

While I was there, I also implemented the other direction (c13a243), to copy from the computer to the device clipboard (without pasting), with Ctrl+Shift+v. Contrary to events injection, this preserves the UTF-8 content exactly, so the text is not broken by special characters, and can be pasted "manually" on Android. (see #413)

I also refactored other things, in the end there are a lot of technical changes:

 48 files changed, 1406 insertions(+), 538 deletions(-)

So please test the dev branch and report any regression or other bugs 😉 Thank you.

I tried this, but was still not able to move text from android to PC, am only able yo copy from PC to android now

Using scrcpy 1.8 x64 bit

[hcet14]

I tried this, but was still not able to move text from android to PC, am only able yo copy from PC to android now>

Same here. x64 W7 and W10 with 1.11, 1.12.1, 1.13

[rom1v]

I tried this, but was still not able to move text from android to PC

After step 1 and 2, does it print INFO: Device clipboard copied in the console?

[oyekanwahab]

No, it does not, I can't see any output on the console after step 1 and 2

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[oyekanwahab]

@KeronCyst can you please reopen this issue

[KeronCyst]

@KeronCyst can you please reopen this issue

Why? It's been working fine for me. Are you talking about the character count limit? If so, that should be a separate issue, no?

[oyekanwahab]

@KeronCyst
it this same issue Can't Ctrl+C text from Android to PC, read above it not only me that is having the issue

[rom1v]

@oyekanwahab Could you test #1423 please?

[oyekanwahab]

ok let me try it

[oyekanwahab]

@rom1v it worked,

thanks alot

[AndroidDeveloperLB]

@rom1v It seems the issue occurs now again, this time on Android 14 on Honor magic4 pro device.
Copying from pc to device works, but not the opposite. Is it a known issue or should I create a new one here somewhere?
It's weird because CTRL+C and CTRL+X work fine on the device.

[rom1v]

There's probably a new security setting to enable/disable in developer options to allow clipboard capture.

[AndroidDeveloperLB]

@rom1v Because of Honor? An unofficial thing?
I don't remember I had such a thing on my Pixel 6.

[rom1v]

@AndroidDeveloperLB You should check. I don't know. It works on Android 14 on a Pixel 8.

[AndroidDeveloperLB]

@rom1v I know it works. I have Pixel 6 and I can see it works.
On this device though it doesn't. I've now searched "clipboard" and "copy" in the settings. Didn't see anything related to this. Also searched manually over all the items in developer options.

Should I create a new report, as it's probably specific to this device/OEM?