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# share

Hand something to the rest of the system — the platform's own sheet.

```toml
[dependencies]
share = "*"
```

```cplus
import "share/share" as sh;

sh::text("look at this");
sh::url("https://example.com/thing");
sh::file("/path/to/report.pdf");
```

macOS, iOS, Android and Windows. Linux builds and reports `Unsupported` because
the desktop has no system share-sheet service. On Windows it goes through WinRT's
`DataTransferManager` reached as plain COM, and it needs **a window and a
running message loop** — the sheet asks for the payload later, on that loop.
`file()` is `Unsupported` there and on Android; the guide says why.

## The return value is "the sheet opened"

Never "the person shared". No platform reports reliably which app was chosen or
whether the send completed — iOS's completion handler reports cancellation but
lies about success for several targets, and Android's chooser reports nothing
at all. An app that needs to know something was sent has to observe the result
itself.

## Three verbs, not one with a kind

A URL gets a preview card, a different app list and "Copy Link" instead of
"Copy". A file goes through a provider a string never touches. A caller who has
a URL should say so.

## Coverage

| | macOS | iOS | Android | Linux | Windows |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `text` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ `Unsupported` | ✅ |
| `url` | ✅ real `NSURL` | ✅ real `NSURL` | ✅ as text | ❌ `Unsupported` | ✅ real `Uri` |
| `file` | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ needs an app-level `FileProvider` | ❌ `Unsupported` | ❌ not built |
| `subject` | dropped | dropped | ✅ `EXTRA_SUBJECT` | — | used as title |

- [tutorial](https://github.com/netdur/cplus/blob/v0.0.28/vendor/share/docs/tutorial.md) · [guide](https://github.com/netdur/cplus/blob/v0.0.28/vendor/share/docs/guide.md) · [ref](https://github.com/netdur/cplus/blob/v0.0.28/vendor/share/docs/ref.md)

## Tests

    cd vendor/share && cpc test

A sheet cannot be asserted — it needs eyes.
