Safari supports reading the clipboard during onpaste events: Information You want to do something like: someDomNode.onpaste = function(e) { var paste = e.clipboardData && e.clipboardData.getData ? e.clipboardData.getData(‘text/plain’) : // Standard window.clipboardData && window.clipboardData.getData ? window.clipboardData.getData(‘Text’) : // MS false; if(paste) { // … } };
execCommand(‘copy’) There is a very new option. It is cross-browser but it will take time until everyone has updated their browser. It works by using the document.execCommand(‘copy’); function. With this function you’ll copy the select text. This will not only work with textareas but with every selected text on the webpage (like in span, p, … Read more
There used to be an experimental clipboard API in Chrome, but this was removed in Chrome 13. Chrome has moved towards the more standard document.execCommand(‘paste’), document.execCommand(‘copy’) and document.execCommand(‘cut’) commands: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Rich-Text_Editing_in_Mozilla#Executing%5FCommands In Chrome you’ll need permissions need to be added to your manifest: “clipboardRead” and “clipboardWrite”. http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declare_permissions.html Up until Chrome 38, these clipboard permissions were only … Read more
This code is being used in Excel 2019 64 bit to get the range of the cells on the clipboard as opposed to the contents of the cells. fGetClipRange returns a range object for the Excel range that is cut or copied onto the clipboard, including book and sheet. It reads it directly from the … Read more
OK, there is not exactly clear of clipboard occurs. Just QT store some sort of pointer of text in the clipboard instead of just text. Gordon Tyler has pointed me to this discussion on the PyQt mailing list which explains what’s going on. I quote code and relevant part of explanation. Run this code on … Read more
You can do it with an html object to retrieve the contents of the clipboard: ‘ Get clipboard text Set objHTML = CreateObject(“htmlfile”) text = objHTML.ParentWindow.ClipboardData.GetData(“text”) EDIT: I use this snippet to put text back on the clipboard, but it needs third party software; a standalone executable ‘clip.exe’ which can be found on Windows 2003 … Read more
This is caused by a bug/feature in Terminal Services clipboard (and possible other things) and the .NET implementation of the clipboard. A delay in opening the clipboard causes the error, which usually passes within a few milliseconds. The solution is to try multiple times within a loop and sleep in between. for (int i = … Read more
I just had this problem and wrapping each cell with the CLEAN function fixed it for me. That should be relatively easy to do by doing =CLEAN(, selecting your cell, and then autofilling the rest of the column. After I did this, pastes into Notepad or any other program no longer had duplicate quotes.
Assuming you have data in the Windows clipboard (for example, copied data from Excel), to put that data into a variable named copdat in R use: copdat <- read.delim(“clipboard”) If you want to copy data from an R variable named rdat into the Windows clipboard (for example, to copy into Excel) use: write.table(rdat, “clipboard”, sep=”\t”, … Read more
For MacVim and Windows Gvim, simply add the following to your ~/.vimrc: set clipboard=unnamed Now all operations such as yy, D, and P work with the clipboard. No need to prefix them with “* or “+.