Consider using the Clipboard class. It features all the methods necessary for putting data on the Windows clipboard and to retrieve data from the Windows clipboard. StringCollection paths = new StringCollection(); paths.Add(“f:\\temp\\test.txt”); paths.Add(“f:\\temp\\test2.txt”); Clipboard.SetFileDropList(paths); The code above will put the files test.txt and test2.txt for copy on the Windows Clipboard. After executing the code you … Read more
Since Flutter 1.9 you can use SelectableText(“Lorem ipsum…”) When text is selected the “Copy” context button will appear.
One way of doing it follows: Install xclip, such as: sudo apt-get install xclip Pipe the output into xclip to be copied into the clipboard: cat file | xclip Paste the text you just copied into a X application: xclip -o To paste somewhere else other than an X application, such as a text area … Read more
The last answer is from 2010 and browsers have changed a lot since then. With this simple function, you can copy whatever you want (text, images, tables, etc) (on your page) to the clipboard. The function receives the element id or the element itself. function copyElementToClipboard(element) { window.getSelection().removeAllRanges(); let range = document.createRange(); range.selectNode(typeof element === … Read more
In windows look at the following API: OpenClipBoard EmptyClipboard SetClipboardData CloseClipboard GetClipboardData An extensive discussion can be found here. Obviously this topic is strongly operating system related. And if you are using some framework (ie MFC/ATL) you generally find some helper infrastructure. This reply refer to the lowest API level in WIndows. If you are … Read more
You can use the module called win32clipboard, which is part of pywin32. Here is an example that first sets the clipboard data then gets it: import win32clipboard # set clipboard data win32clipboard.OpenClipboard() win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard() win32clipboard.SetClipboardText(‘testing 123’) win32clipboard.CloseClipboard() # get clipboard data win32clipboard.OpenClipboard() data = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData() win32clipboard.CloseClipboard() print data An important reminder from the documentation: When the … Read more
Another solution I have found that isn’t perfect in my opinion, but doesn’t have the annoying security warnings is to use clip.exe from a w2k3 server. Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) WshShell.Run “cmd.exe /c echo hello world | clip”, 0, TRUE Example with a multiline string as per question below : Link1 Dim string String = … Read more
To set the contents of the clipboard, as Chris Thornton, klaatu, and bunches of others have said, use %windir%\system32\clip.exe. Update 2: For a quick one-liner, you could do something like this: powershell -sta “add-type -as System.Windows.Forms; [windows.forms.clipboard]::GetText()” Capture and parse with a for /F loop if needed. This will not execute as quickly as the … Read more
Handle the errors with On Error GoTo as shown here: Sub GetClipBoardText() Dim DataObj As MSForms.DataObject Set DataObj = New MsForms.DataObject ‘<~~ Amended as per jp’s suggestion On Error GoTo Whoa ‘~~> Get data from the clipboard. DataObj.GetFromClipboard ‘~~> Get clipboard contents myString = DataObj.GetText(1) MsgBox myString Exit Sub Whoa: If Err <> 0 Then … Read more
VB 6 provides a Clipboard object that makes all of this extremely simple and convenient, but unfortunately that’s not available from VBA. If it were me, I’d go the API route. There’s no reason to be scared of calling native APIs; the language provides you with the ability to do that for a reason. However, … Read more