[FEATURE] copy HC to clipboard

[styner]

It would be great to have a button/option to copy the computed head circumference to the clipboard, so that one can paste it to a spreadsheet easily (and reduce potential typing/copying errors)

[styner]

Making the head circulumference text selectable might be an easy half-way measure

[mlouielu]

Some way to tackle this by:

• Double click to copy, or
• Auto copy after measurement option

For testing, different OS has different clipboard system, I am not sure if Qt has unify this.

We also need to define:

• What kind of format you want? (e.g. "423.75", "423.75, mm", "423.75 mm")
• Do you need multiple measurement data at once? (e.g. "423.75, 433.20, 400.00", "423.75\n433.20\n400.00"

Extend from this, potentially we can add a UI for history measurement result and recall image when double click on it.

[eric-unc]

Probably have a button or something. I'm sure that there's a Python library out there to multiplex clipboard systems, even if Qt does not.

I'm guessing without units? I assume the results are put into a spreadsheet or CSV or something for further processing.

[styner]

I think Qt has functionality for cross-platform clipboard access (https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qclipboard.html). The simplest way would be to support without units, and a single measurement at a time. Double clicking & pressing the short cut for copy (ctl-C, Apple-C etc) on the text in the window should do the trick (currently not possible).

Correct, re use: results are inserted into spreadsheet

[mlouielu]

Correct, re use: results are inserted into spreadsheet

Just wondering the actual workflow, do you also need the filename in the copy?

Or how do you distinguish them in your spreadsheet, is it just a single column and row index, or two column with filename and measurement result?

[styner]

We probably want to keep the potential workflow as open as possible. So, the user can select and copy any text and we should make sure that text is available. Thus, changing the text above the image, e.g. have just the name of the file (without extension) + the head circumference + unit: myimage: 122.34 mm. Then a user can select either the whole line (triple click), or just the number (double click)