Anyway to get clipboard image into Unity?

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My app needs to get some image data pumped into it. Normally this would be a local file, but I’m using the web app (because I have Indie and can’t use plugins, long story). Anyway, as I understand it, the web app won’t load textures locally, even via WWW with file:// (or has that changed?)
So, I’m looking for alternatives. Thought maybe if .NET or Unity supported ‘copy image from clipboard’ somehow, I might manage it that way?
Any ideas?

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Why do you need the ability to load any image? Why do you need to access the clipboard? Can’t you simply build your release with the resources you need?

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webapps can only load from the internet.
Any kind of local access is disabled (including the corresponding .NET capabilities) for security reasons, you can only work within Unity.

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hmmm.

In answer to ‘why’ - why not?

  1. One of my apps is a general purpose 3d loader/player for X3D (think Vrml only more modern). The content is not in my app, it’s completely up to the user what goes into the scene. This needs the ability to load textures on the fly, some of which may be local. I actually have 2 such projects, similar needs. This would need to work within browsers such as IE and Firefox.

  2. Another of my apps is less a game and more a visualization tool. It takes video snaps and composites them with game objects to represent what the client needs. Unity’s ability to work with stereo monitors is key to this one. I tried using the AR library for getting video in, but it doesn’t seem to work with web/indie, and crashes on my pro install. My client doesn’t have pro, so it doesn’t matter anyway.

I’m ‘wrapping’ the player in an app that has access to other resources (devices and systems) which Unity does not have access to. These provide for clipboard and file access, so I was hoping that one of these would be available within Unity (web).

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No, the webplayer can access the web only, no local file or data access, as most webtechnologies actually.
Otherwise it would just be a glorified ActiveX security threat, not a modern web technology :slight_smile:

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Ok thanks. I’ll find another way.