Ditto is an extension to the standard windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items at a later time. Ditto allows you to save any type of information that can be put on the clipboard, text, images, html, custom formats, .....

Features

  • Easy to use interface
  • Search and paste previous copy entries
  • Keep multiple computer's clipboards in sync
  • Data is encrypted when sent over the network
  • Accessed from tray icon or global hot key
  • Select entry by double click, enter key or drag drop
  • Paste into any window that excepts standard copy/paste entries
  • Display thumbnail of copied images in list
  • Full Unicode support(display foreign characters)
  • UTF-8 support for language files(create language files in any language)
  • Uses sqlite database (www.sqlite.org)

Why not use built in Copy bins in Office or VS.Net

  • VS.Net only collects pastes from inside Visual studio
  • No way to paste to external app
  • Can't search past clips
  • Limited storage of clips
  • Clips do not persist after closing Visual Studio

License

3.24.246.0 4-15-2023

  • Fixed wildcard search
  • Added special paste options to multi paste images
  • Fixed issue with maintaining focus when moving the selection up and down on multiple clips
  • Don't take focus when starting up
  • Fixed issue with search for %
  • Fixed issue with having a clip with thousands of the same text and that is what you search for
  • Update Ukrainian.xml
  • Update Turkish.xml
  • Update Japanese.xml
  • Update Slovak translation

3.24.238.0 10-04-2022

  • Description window changes - Default to rtf rather than html, handle repeat keys for searching
  • Changed the regex filter to be a find rather than a match
  • Added command line options /exit
  • Added special paste option to paste as CamelCase
  • Fixed issue with search text not going away after pasting
  • Fixed issue with tooltip not working when title bar is not on the right side
  • Added view as image to description window
  • Fixed issue with sorting by clip size in delete clip data window
  • When setting a custom drag name to append a unique number at the end
  • Fixed issue with opening the description window on a secondary monitor that is to the left of the primary (negative rect values)
  • Add Selenized Dark theme (#199)
  • Update Slovak translation (#196)
  • Update Russian.xml (#206)
  • Fixed issue with custom shortcut ctrl-d adding focus to search box with square box
  • Added translation for options - positioning
  • Fixed issue with saving setting to refresh ui after pasting option
  • Default to refreshing the view after pasting
  • Added option to leave window as is after pasting, not moving clip to the top
  • Leave selection as is when copying with ctrl-c
  • Fixed issue with global shortcuts window not showing the clip description

3.24.214.0 09-10-2021

  • Added the ability to set a custom name for the drag file name (F4)
  • Added character and word count to tooltip footer
  • Allow tiny xml to load files with unicode paths
  • Added save delay option to advanced options
  • Enable control back space in the search edit box
  • Added /n to set the file drag and drop file name
  • Fixed issue with exporting lcip to google translate
  • Fix for registering global clips with long descriptions
  • Added AppVersion to installer
  • fixed issue AsciiTextReplaceRegex not working
  • Update about email and web site url
  • Updated unicode/ansi/utf8 macros - fixed issue with only having cf_text set if there is an on copy script
  • Refresh the description after the OnCopyScript
  • Removed control key check when setting focus to the search bar
  • Select index position after pasting
  • Set created data time when creating clips by new clip window - show quick paste text in delete clips window
  • Added option Disable Friends to the advanced options dialog

3.24.184.0 02-27-2021

  • Fixed issue with excluding clips by regex not working
  • Added option to maintain search view
  • Added keyboard shortcut to open the system menu, defaults to control-right click keyboard key, Can be customized in option quick paste keyboard.
  • Support having the port after the IP/host name when sending to friends
  • Register with windows restart manager
  • Show database id in a clip's tool tip
  • Added option to bind the server to a specific IP address
  • Handle keystroke before first load is done
  • Added option to allow back to back duplicates
  • Added option to not handle multiple hot key presses to move selection
  • Handle repeat keys for moving clips up and down

3.23.124.0 10-26-2020

  • Don't auto hide the window when editing a clip
  • Don't hide the tooltip window when copying from html viewer, same as rtf
  • When set to always on top refresh active window on first mouse move over window
  • Don't refresh the list when a copy is made from the description window
  • Use on demand icu dll for upper/lower case manipulation
  • Removed icu dlls, use dll included in windows
  • Fixed gdi leaks
  • Handle shift - home to select all items above the current selection
  • Use string size to create strings, found data sometimes didn't have a null terminator so extra data was at the end of the string
  • Added a way to force crash, type crash in search and shift-control click
  • Added support for total commander diff
  • Enable html format by default if no formats are defined
  • Fixed issue with screen resolution changing with scaled dpi settings, window would go smaller
  • Updated c++ dependancies to the latest
  • Fixed issue with high cpu with search full text selected when only a few items are returend
  • Added a way through add ins to get/set the description
  • Added adv option to set the default editor font size
  • If searching for both description and full text use Distinct to ensure we don't return mutliple rows
  • Fixed issue with export to text and image only allowing 1000 clips
  • Refresh list after delete all non used clips from task tray
  • Added option to delete all non used clips
  • If database is on a network share refresh Ditto when showing if last write time of db has been updated
  • If db is on a network drive, or anything other than C: then wait for that db to come online
  • Added new global key to send a copy and save the current clipboard in one shot
  • Added option to not place cf_hdrop onto the drag object when dragging from Ditto. Found latest firefox wouldn't accept drops if the cf_hdrop type was on there
  • Enable / disable edit boxes for max count and keep days in config
  • Update diff paths
  • Order by sticky clip order first then group, then clip order - updated indexes

3.22.88.0 12-20-2019

  • Added backup / restore db options
  • Default position to caret
  • Added system context menu to hide startup message
  • Regular expression matching is case insensitive
  • Limit past searches to 10 and 50 characters each
  • Zoom in on image using ctrl - mouse wheel
  • Support horizontal and vertical panning touch gestures
  • Fixed issue with always removing / and q from the beginning of the search string
  • Handle enter key in Delete Clip data window
  • Follow windows 10 settings for app dark/light
  • Use accent color to show pasted clips updated italian language file
  • Added activate window delay to adv options, changed default value from 50ms to 100ms
  • Fix issue with handling ctrl-c in the description window
  • Added force close command
  • Fixed showing message when double clicking on a .dto file to place it on the clipboard
  • Support entering escape in quick paste shortcuts
  • Don't save rtf text from edit screen unless they have rtf in supported types
  • Double check ensure visible when creating window, helps with window scaling on first open
  • Better detecting of hyperlinks in text editor
  • Added options for first ten start index and font size
  • Default editor font to segue ui and 14 point font
  • Added regex replace to chai scripts
  • Added replace call to std::string to chai script
  • Added set clip as sticky to chai script
  • Added FormatCurrentTime chai script
  • Show paste script shortcut keys in the menu

3.22.20.0 12-23-2018

  • Fixed crash in latest windows 10 when changing dpi
  • Removed message box when we fail to request a file from a remote computer, changed to balloon message in the task tray
  • Added option to invert case special paste
  • Updated German language file
  • Updated to latest version of SQLite, 3.26.
  • Added warning message box on compact and repair button is clicked
  • Aggregate multiple clips better if some clips don't have all the data needed
  • Updated chocolatey portable install script to handle upgrades
  • Changed output debug string and output debug to file shortcuts to ctrl-d, ctrl-o and ctrl-d, ctrl-f
  • Added back in auto roll-up quick option
  • Fixed issue resizing description window with image and then not being able to move next/prev with up/down keys
  • Changed right click menu from "filter on" to "filter on selected clip"
  • Added export to email, content as attachment Added special paste - slugify
  • Fixed import message window size
  • Update menu for export to email
  • Fixed issue with clicking on an image in description window and the up/down arrows stop working
  • Added email to and gmail export options
  • Trim include/exclude app text when checking against current app
  • Added Hungarian language file
  • When the desktop has focus center over the screen with the mouse cursor
  • Handle ensure window is visible on differnt dpi monitors better

3.21.258.0 09-03-2018

  • Per-monitor dpi awareness
  • Added chocolatey install support
  • Show image size in the description window
  • Show HTML in the description window
  • Show a message when there are no search results
  • Added command line option to paste plain text /PlainTextPaste
  • Special Paste option to trim white space

  • Added the Slovak language
  • Updated Chinese language file
  • Updated French language file

  • Recreate the database at the same location if the original was deleted
  • Show icon for description window on alt-tab
  • Sort on column click in delete clip data window
  • Use PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION to find process names, PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION was returning error on some processes, mainly qt apps
  • Added option to revert back to top level on close when an event in a group is selected
  • Added more functions to scripting
  • Allow left/right control and left/right shift keys to be set as {vkey} keys
  • Handle shift mouse wheel to scroll horizontally
  • Show folder path in the description window
  • Added shortcuts to manipulate transparency - toggle transparency - increase/decrease transparency
  • Show clip group path in tooltip and description
  • Removed replacing ' with '' when saving in the properties window
  • Fixed issue with refreshing thumbnails after opening properties window
  • Removed local help files, point to Ditto wiki on SourceForge
  • Refresh window better when changing themes
  • Allow multiple quick paste texts to be the same
  • Output 32 vs 64 bit build in options - about
  • Added back door setting to disable expire clips config
  • Reset modifier keys when opened through the command line

3.21.223.0 12-22-2017

  • Chai script paste support (https://sourceforge.net/p/ditto-cp/wiki/Scripting/)
  • Fixed issue with pasting into admin app from a low privilege user
  • Fixed crash when dragging and dropping
  • Handle exception when placing items on the clipboard, should fix a reported crash
  • Handle hyper-links in description window
  • Handle mouse wheel messages for the window the mouse is over not the the focused window
  • Set focus to richtext on mouse active so the first click works to select text and click on hyper-links
  • Don't hide description window when deleting clips
  • Track active window when opened from command line option
  • Handle page up/down with description window open
  • Use version 6 common controls, config windows looks better
  • Removed ability to convert old access db to sqlite, if needed they can first run an older version then this version.
  • Added adv option to multi paste in reverse order or not
  • Find child process for uwp apps, edge, mail, ...
  • Delay sending paste to edge browser so the paste works, edge seems to take a long time to set focus
  • Use rtf control to pre process rtf before we draw rtf text, was finding newer version of word would add data that our draw routine could not handle
  • Don't combine multiple clips unless they all have that type of data
  • Assign short cut keys to paste scripts
  • PNG supported in viewer and thumbnail images
  • Support png images in drag and drop and export to image
  • Change appx app name to "Ditto Clipboard" - added php script to beta page to always refresh page
  • Updated icons for alt-tab
  • Resize dialog paint fix
  • Tooltip timeout of 0 turns off toolips
  • Show a message when receiving a manual sent clip, option to turn this off
  • Color search box better when using dark theme
  • Handle repeat keys when moving selection up and down
  • Show selected index and clipboard change delay in adv settings
  • Added menu option to move clip to the end of the list
  • Added shortcut key to load last search
  • Added shortcut key to toggle search method
  • Added the ability use environment variables in the database path
  • Don't add cmd.exe custom keys if we are windows 10
  • Fixed issue with showing scroll bars
  • Fixed searching for regex on quick paste text
  • F3 searches list by default on second press if searching
  • Added tooltip timeout to the adv options window
  • Read large string values from settings (reg or ini)
  • Fixed issues with drawing rtf text
  • Updated Chinese translation
  • Added option to not show startup tooltip message
  • Show & when typed into search box

3.21.185.0 9-4-2017

  • Reworked config - removed quick paste tab - updated general page - added advanced popup for rest of settings - added regex filter config ui
  • Forward mousewheel to description window
  • pdated bitmap generation, uses Bicubic to resize images now, much better image quality
  • Added command to move selection up/down that can be assigned to shortcut key
  • Control-drag will always drag files
  • Exclude CF_DIB if copied from excel, often causes lockups
  • Reset scroll back to 0 when refilling list, before it could get scrolled to the right and look empty
  • Show menu of previouse searches (ctrl-down or ctrl-shift-down or click down icon)
  • Check focused process name against group name, if they match open to that group, needs to match exactly (ex, notepad.exe), case does not matter
  • Windows scaling fixes
  • Fixed pasting into search bar if pasted text is larger than the displayed width
  • Fixed crashes around bad regular expressions, added try-catch block
  • Implimented regex filter of clips to exclude clips from getting into ditto that match a regulare expression
  • Added option to save file contents into ditto's database so we don't need the file anymore
  • Fixed issue with showing never delete icon when it shouldn't be shown
  • Free up memory when saving image to file fromd drag drop
  • Added option to prompt for friends ip/host name for who to send to
  • Offset position at cursor so we don't show toolip
  • Added option to replace top sticky clip
  • Show balloon tooltip on start and on error messages
  • When running from windows app don't try and launch elevated app
  • Fixes for drawning html tags present in copied text, use un printable characters to highlight
  • Updated to visual studio 2017
  • Adjust rtf text when generating crc to handle word and outlook adding unique values to the rtf text

3.21.134.0 1-29-2017

  • Updated default UI look of Ditto
  • Added custom shortcut keys (options - quick paste Keyboard)
  • Updated Ditto Icon
  • Added option to paste adding the current time to the end
  • Added option to show what clips have been pasted
  • Added option to installer to add firewall exception for Ditto
  • Added option to last ten pastes to use ui selected group for indexes
  • Installer updated to auto close Ditto
  • Removed flicker on large tooltop text
  • Added option to toggle last viewed group
  • Show scroll bars when viewing image in description window
  • Added multiple shortcut keys to activate Ditto. Useful when using multiple language keyboards
  • Allow delete/page up/down while description window is visible

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