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Infinity Senior Member Members Offline Diagonally parked in a parallel dimension Posts: 1290 Location: Massachusetts Joined: May 27^th, 2005	Command button to copy to clipboard? Jun 26^th, 2008 at 5:32pm	Print Post
	Is there a command I can use to have the contents of an element copied to the Windows clipboard?

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The Cow YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 2530 Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Command button to copy to clipboard? Reply #1 - Jun 26^th, 2008 at 6:42pm	Print Post
	I just wrote a command that does this into SBasic. It will be in the next release. In the meantime, you'll probably have to use a macro. In either case, use care. There is a possibility that your user has elected to copy information into their copy buffer and it may upset them if you overwrite that material.

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Infinity Senior Member Members Offline Diagonally parked in a parallel dimension Posts: 1290 Location: Massachusetts Joined: May 27^th, 2005	Re: Command button to copy to clipboard? Reply #2 - Jun 26^th, 2008 at 7:17pm	Print Post
	Quote: I just wrote a command that does this into SBasic. It will be in the next release. YAY! I'll be looking for it. Quote: In the meantime, you'll probably have to use a macro. Way too much work for such a trivial task, but thanks for the suggestion. Quote: In either case, use care. There is a possibility that your user has elected to copy information into their copy buffer and it may upset them if you overwrite that material. I don't understand what you mean. How could my clipboard affect their buffer?

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The Cow YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 2530 Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Command button to copy to clipboard? Reply #3 - Jun 26^th, 2008 at 7:38pm	Print Post
	When you use ctrl-C to copy data from an application to the OS's clipboard, you are copying data into a buffer that extends to all of the applications that the user may be running. So if your user uses cut or copy to save some text for pasting later. And, before they do paste that text, your Sesame application invisibly does another "copy to the Window's clipboard", your Sesame application will overwrite the data they are intended to paste later.

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Infinity Senior Member Members Offline Diagonally parked in a parallel dimension Posts: 1290 Location: Massachusetts Joined: May 27^th, 2005	Re: Command button to copy to clipboard? Reply #4 - Jun 26^th, 2008 at 8:10pm	Print Post
	But Control+C is individual to my own workstation, it copies to my own clipboard. John can Control+C something else to his own clipboard, and Michelle can Control+C something else to hers. And if any of us uses Control+V we only paste the contents of our individual clipboards. I've never experienced an instance where I've used Control+V and pasted the contents of someone else's clipboard. That would freak me out. Are you saying that Sesame users somehow share a clipboard? I still don't understand.

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The Cow YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 2530 Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Command button to copy to clipboard? Reply #5 - Jun 26^th, 2008 at 8:19pm	Print Post
	Infinity wrote on Jun 26^th, 2008 at 8:10pm: But Control+C is individual to my own workstation, it copies to my own clipboard. John can Control+C something else to his own clipboard, and Michelle can Control+C something else to hers. And if any of us uses Control+V we only paste the contents of our individual clipboards. I've never experienced an instance where I've used Control+V and pasted the contents of someone else's clipboard. That would freak me out. Are you saying that Sesame users somehow share a clipboard? I still don't understand. No. I assumed that you were building an application that others would be using on their computers. But even if you are building an application that only you will be using, the same care applies. For example, if you copy a large complex bit of text from notepad to your clipboard, intending to paste it into an element in Sesame, and while you are in Sesame you (forgetting that it copied to the clipboard) you hit this button you are intending to create. It will silently overwrite the text you laboriously copied to your clipboard from notepad.

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Infinity Senior Member Members Offline Diagonally parked in a parallel dimension Posts: 1290 Location: Massachusetts Joined: May 27^th, 2005	Re: Command button to copy to clipboard? Reply #6 - Jun 26^th, 2008 at 8:26pm	Print Post
	Quote: No. I assumed that you were building an application that others would be using on their computers. This indeed a shared application. So I am assuming from your warnings that Sesame users do share a clipboard, somehow, perhaps what the books call the "buffer"? But I've never had a problem; I and my users use Control+C and Right-Click-Copy all the time and there's never been an incidence of crossover pasting. If it is the "buffer" it's what I want to avoid. I do not want to replicate F11, but Control+C. Quote: But even if you are building an application that only you will be using, the same care applies. For example, if you copy a large complex bit of text from notepad to your clipboard, intending to paste it into an element in Sesame, and while you are in Sesame you (forgetting that it copied to the clipboard) you hit this button you are intending to create. It will silently overwrite the text you laboriously copied to your clipboard from notepad. This I understand, as I use the clipboard quite extensively.

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The Cow YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 2530 Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Command button to copy to clipboard? Reply #7 - Jun 26^th, 2008 at 8:43pm	Print Post
	Infinity wrote on Jun 26^th, 2008 at 8:26pm: Quote: But even if you are building an application that only you will be using, the same care applies. For example, if you copy a large complex bit of text from notepad to your clipboard, intending to paste it into an element in Sesame, and while you are in Sesame you (forgetting that it copied to the clipboard) you hit this button you are intending to create. It will silently overwrite the text you laboriously copied to your clipboard from notepad. This I understand, as I use the clipboard quite extensively. The above is all I am talking about, or have been talking about. Nothing to do with client/server, multiple users, shared applications, or anything nearly so complicated.

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Infinity Senior Member Members Offline Diagonally parked in a parallel dimension Posts: 1290 Location: Massachusetts Joined: May 27^th, 2005	Re: Command button to copy to clipboard? Reply #8 - Jun 27^th, 2008 at 1:47pm	Print Post
	Thanks Mark!

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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Editing Macro Reply #9 - Jul 29^th, 2008 at 6:19pm	Print Post
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