Improve ImageGrab.grabclipboard() on Windows #4615
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Helps #4611
Adds support for the following clipboard formats on Windows in addition to the already supported
CF_DIB
:CF_DIBV5
'PNG'
used by e.g. MS Word 2016 and Paint.NET,CF_HDROP
used by most browsers (except Chrome), file explorers, etc.Support for
CF_HDROP
was already hinted at in the documentation, but there was merely a FIXME in place of the code.Used format is selected out of available formats based on the priority specified by the clipboard owner.
While I could see the argument that CF_HDROP is more complicated and should therefore only be a fallback, based on my testing, it is almost always the preferred format, and preserves the original image data (e.g. transparency, tags, ...), unlike bitmaps.