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The windows clipboard accepts many different types of files and only applications that are compatible with the type can use paste to save the contents. In this case the file is an image in some image format so only image editors will be able to accept a paste and ImHex is not an image editor. You would need to create an icon file from the contents of the clipboard using irfanview or some image editor. then you'll be able to load the image as a binary file into imhex. |
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Well isn't imhex a universal file editor ? Should it accept every possible clipboard types as just raw bits ? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dataxchg/standard-clipboard-formats |
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No, ImHex is a hex editor. Hex editors edit binary files. Patterns are text file so a text editor is also included. It can display images but it doesnt have an image editor. |
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Is this a matter of ImHex just needing to accept any arbitrary type? Or does modern Windows do some nonsense where it would actually need to register itself as an image editor? |
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I think it's mainly a matter of implementing the abstraction for it outselves. So far we just use glfw's implementation which only supports text. The thing that requires more setup (including modifying the registry I believe) is adding custom clipboard types. That would allow copying from ImHex to not store the entire copied data into the clipboard up front but only read it once it's pasted. PRs welcome if anyone's interested in working on this. I'm not really using Windows myself anymore so it went down in priority for me |
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Thing to remember is that this is also another one of those things the various OSes can't agree on, and it all sucks. Linux is split up into x11 and wayland; Wayland has a mime based api system; https://wayland.app/protocols/wayland#wl_data_offer, x11 is a mix of win32 and wayland but still uses mime (usually): https://handmade.network/forums/articles/t/8544-implementing_copy_paste_in_x11 Apple is similar to win32 but has more realistic types; https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nspasteboard/pasteboardtype One of the rare times Wayland's api design is the winner. |
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It would probably be a case of a plugin system for instance you might want to insert certain blocks at a particular offset in a file like for example icons are collection of inner images. But at a lower lever a square of pixel has to line up with certain rows and columns to be applied. |
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Example, I am in nirsoft IconsExtract
I press "copy select image"
Now the image is in my clipboard
Right here
I can't save that to a file directly, I can paste it in irfanview, but then it will save it as a PNG and add a header.
Iconsextract cannot save individual icons as files either.
I tried pasting into the main window
But that does not create a tab with the raw data clipboard data
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