NAME¶

SDL_GetClipboardText - Get UTF-8 text from the clipboard, which must be freed with SDL_free ().

SYNOPSIS¶

#include "SDL3/SDL.h"

char * SDL_GetClipboardText(void);

DESCRIPTION¶

This functions returns empty string if there was not enough memory left for a copy of the clipboard's content.

RETURN VALUE¶

Returns the clipboard text on success or an empty string on failure; call

SDL_GetError () for more information. Caller must call

SDL_free () on the returned pointer when done with it (even if there was an error).

AVAILABILITY¶

This function is available since SDL 3.0.0.

SEE ALSO¶

SDL_HasClipboardText(3), SDL_SetClipboardText(3)