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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-41125

On windows text copied to the clipboard is lost when application quits

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    • 5.3.1
    • GUI: Drag and Drop
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    • Windows 8 64 bit

      On Windows, text copied to the clipboard is lost when application quits. This is a regression from earlier versions of Qt and is probably caused by the fix for https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-36958

      Workaround is to subclass QApplication and in the exec() method of the subclass manually call OleFlushClipboard() before returning. Python code demonstrating this follows:

          if iswindows:
        def exec_(self):
            try:
                return QApplication.exec_()
            finally:
                try:
                    if self.clipboard().ownsClipboard():
                        import ctypes
                        ctypes.WinDLL('ole32.dll').OleFlushClipboard()
                except Exception:
                    import traceback
                    traceback.print_exc()

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            kovid Kovid Goyal
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