Using Mathematica, can the contents of a tooltip be written to the paste buffer?

Question

I have an application where tooltips are used to give information on each of a graphical array of objects. I subsequently want to use the content of the tooltip to create any particular object of interest. If the contents of the tooltip can be written to the paste buffer then I should be able to do this easily. But I haven't been able to figure out how to do this...

Answer 1

Since you don't provide the code for your application, let's use this as example:

SeedRandom@1
Graphics[
 {
  AbsolutePointSize@10,
  Tooltip[Point@#, #] & /@ RandomReal[{0, 1}, {10, 2}]
  }
 ]

If we now want to be able to copy something to the clipboard, we can use EventHandler and CopyToClipboard

SeedRandom@1
Graphics[
 {
  AbsolutePointSize@10,
  EventHandler[
     Tooltip[Point@#, #],
     {"MouseClicked" :> CopyToClipboard@#}
     ] & /@ RandomReal[{0, 1}, {10, 2}]
  }
 ]

Now, clicking on a point puts its coordinates into the clipboard. Note that it doesn't need to be a Graphics expression, EventHandler can be used anywhere where Tooltip works.