Wouldn’t it be nice if it threw an error, and didn’t just return NULL?

bsnal · on June 8, 2022

If you get NULL, you are supposed to call GetLastError to get information on what happened.

taspeotis · on June 9, 2022

How would you like this C API to throw an error?

Akronymus · on June 8, 2022

Itd be nice if the proviser were to show a dialog that a copy was requested but couldnt be provided. Altough, dunno what a good message for that would be.

hackmiester · on June 8, 2022

Very old school windows apps like SecureCRT display semi-helpful messages for this. Better than a silent failure anyway.

passivate · on June 9, 2022

I don't think low level system APIs when called from an App should be messing with UI components. Can you explain what is better about it?

Akronymus · on June 9, 2022

I don't think it is the system level API, but rather the program receiving a notification that the copy paste didn't succeed where the program can then display an error/warning. At least from my understanding.