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title: "How to paste NSPasteBoard into another application?"  
description: "How to paste NSPasteBoard into another application?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-12-15  
updated: 2015-12-16  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33740/how-to-paste-nspasteboard-into-another-application  
category: "iphone"  
tags: ["iphone", "ios", "objective c"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to paste NSPasteBoard into another application?

I have successfully get [content](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13019/get-the-best-content-marketing-pricing-packages-for-your-brand) from the **NSPasteboard** and [copy](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/161993/explain-the-numpy-array-copy-vs-view-with-example) it into my **[active](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97113/why-does-an-active-ftp-not-work-with-network-firewalls) applicaiton**. but I unable to get a way to paste it into another [application](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12824/calculator-application-in-android), just how to paste it into my current application.\
If you are [thinking](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11889/how-to-change-your-thinking-paradigm) why I want to do this, then I tell you that I am researching if there is a way to improve Jumpcut [open source](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/337437/how-to-leverage-open-source-for-innovative-project-development) application (jumpcut.sf.net). Currently, it fakes cmd+v to paste the content into another application, but this doesn't work on X11 (which expects Ctrl+v).\
If any one solve my issue then it will be appreciatable, thank you.

## Replies

### Reply by Tarun Kumar

In my according **X11** does not really understand the **OS X pasteboard** so I think there's some special magic going on to map whatever's on the OS X pasteboard into a form which can be used as the X pasteboard.\
Depending on what we are prepared to know about the target app. We can do something between sending a simulated Ctrl-V event and coercing the app into requesting the content of the clipboard (not the primary clip buffer, which is the middle-click one in X)


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