Clipboard Helper for RPG Maker MV

This is a workflow enhancement for RPG Maker MV, enabling seamless data exchange with other applications through the clipboard.

Supported data copied in RPG Maker is automatically translated into RPGSNIPPET text that can be pasted elsewhere, and supported snippets found in copied Unicode text are automatically made available to RPG Maker.

As snippets can contain arbitrary executable code (through use of RPG Maker's JavaScript scripting feature), please make sure to always read through snippets given to you by others before use to check for anything suspicious!

Editions

To make this software broadly available in a way that's sustainable to me, I've locked a few features that are more likely to cause issues in the paid "Pro" edition:

Features by Edition	Basic	Pro
Use snippets	✔	✔
Create snippets	✔	✔
Use modified snippets		✔
Compact mode		✔

You may not sublicense this tool, but you can sell or gift a usage license onwards as used, provided you don't use it past that transaction. (Please include all files from the original package when doing so.) See the included license.html for details.

Please note that I may be able to provide only limited support for resold or gifted licenses. In particular, I don't think I can refund them except to the original buyer.

Basic

With this free edition, you could, for example:

• provide self-made snippets alongside your own commercial RPG Maker plugin, to make it easier to use,
• create and share ready-to-use tile flag configurations to go along with your commercial tileset images.

Pro

At this point I will assume you know what you are doing.
(All features and usage rights of the Basic edition are included.)

This edition comes with multiple executables that, depending on which you use, let you use even snippets that have been modified outside of RPG Maker and create (usually single-line) snippets with raw, unformatted content (compact mode).

I charge money for this edition as I expect to receive support requests as a result of these features. It's also possible that there may be problems I cannot fix. Please back up your game project regularly when using this tier!

Data Compatibility

	RPG Maker MV
Animations	☑☑
Actors	✔✔
Armors	✔✔
Classes	✔✔
Common Events	✔✔
Enemies	✔✔
Events	✔
Event Commands	✔✔
Event Pages	✔
Items	✔✔
Maps	✔
Player	not usefully
Skills	✔✔
States	✔✔
Starting Party Members	not usefully
[SV] Magic Skills	not usefully
Tilesets	☑☑
Traits	✔✔
Troops	✔✔
Types: Elements	☑
Types: Skill Types	☑
Types: Weapon Types	☑
Types: Armor Types	☑
Types: Equipment Types	☑
Weapons	✔✔

☑: Supported
☑☑: Supported, incl. multiple in one snippet
✔: Supported, but may contain foreign IDs
✔✔: Supported, incl. multiple in one snippet, but may contain foreign IDs

RPG Manager unfortunately represents links between items only by the other item's ID number. This means that the meaning of those links can change when data is copied between different projects, or that pasting could fail in some cases where the linked-to item does not exist yet.

Please keep this in mind when creating snippets that refer to anything that appears in one of RPG Maker's numbered lists.

Known Issues

When using the clipboard history in Windows (Win+V), neither items copied from RPG Maker nor text containing snippets appear in the history.

I'll have to do some research into this, but it's currently not a high priority. This issue may not be fixable in a way that's guaranteed to avoid data corruption.

As a workaround, you can use Ditto Clipboard Manager instead of Windows's clipboard history. You can paste previously copied snippets directly into RPG Maker by double-clicking them in Ditto.

Questions & Answers

Who made the cover image?

Credit and many thanks for that go to Dronaroid (@artdron), who turned a very rough initial idea into the polished summary you see at the top of the page.

Will there be support for Linux and macOS?

Linux support is planned, but I can't give an ETA on this. The program has to interact with the low-level OS clipboard API, which I'm not familiar with in Linux.
I also have not checked yet whether Linux support is possible, so please do not buy a license at this time if you require this feature.

macOS won't be supported due to the financial hurdles introduced by Apple against developers of redistributable software. I simply cannot afford to support this platform.

Can you add support for RPG Maker …?

Yes and no.

Supporting RPG Maker MZ would likely be quite easy since it's (hopefully) similar to MV, but I can't afford that one very well. I will consider the investment if this tool sells well or there is a lot of demand for it.

Supporting versions of RPG Maker older than MV is likely possible, but would come with limited functionality. These versions use binary project data instead of JSON, which limits my ability to create human-readable snippets and makes the initial implementation somewhat more difficult.
I already have a license to RPG Maker XP though, so if you would be okay with basic support without advanced features and would use this feature regularly, please let me know.

Can this program be used to move data between different versions of RPG Maker?

No.

While possible in theory, such a feature would be several magnitudes more work to research, implement and test thoroughly. As such, there are no plans to implement this.

Please use the project upgrade features included with RPG Maker by default instead, where available.