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Millie is correct; Decker doesn't attempt to manipulate native image data in the system clipboard; it's very difficult to do that sort of thing in a cross-platform fashion, especially once web browsers are added to the mix.

Decker uses a custom text encoding for information stored in the clipboard. If you're interested, it's described in The Decker Document Format. This is also the same format for images you can obtain with the ".encoded" attribute of image interfaces.

Keep in mind that anything you find yourself doing repeatedly in the Listener can be moved to a button script, and parameterized with other widgets. Use Decker to build tools to remove tedium from working on your projects!

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understand! i haven’t thought about the technical difficulty of manipulating native files. your advice on using decker to build tools to help building deck is mind-blowing, yet makes a lot of sense! great thx for developing this amazing tool!

Whenever I design new contraptions, I end up making little scaffolds and one-off tools:

The best part is that highly specialized tools that only do exactly the thing you need tend to be much simpler than writing general, reusable tools. 

Blurring the lines between "writing an application" and "using an application" produces a very unique and pleasant way of working. :)