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Copying to clipboard without intermediate window [message #1757817]

Mon, 20 March 2017 09:40

Urs Beeli

Messages: 571
Registered: October 2012
Location: Bern, Switzerland

Senior Member

When using BEANS.get(IClipboardService.class).setTextContents("foobar");

A popoup window is shown in the browser in which the user again has to press Ctrl-C to copy the selected values into the clipboard.

Is there a way to have the javascript code directly insert this text into the user's clipboard without this intermediate popup window?

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Re: Copying to clipboard without intermediate window [message #1757818 is a reply to message #1757817]

Mon, 20 March 2017 09:47

Matthias Otterbach

Messages: 18
Registered: August 2015
Location: Munich

Junior Member

Unfortunately currently it is not possible to copy the values directly into the clipboard due to security restrictions of the browser (writing directly to the clipboard from JavaScript is only possible in an "user action context", but because Scout UI handles a command from the server, this is not in an "user action context").

If you want to write directly to the clipboard you would have to create your own custom widget w/o using the ClipboardService. Within this widget you could write directly to the clipboard (as long as you write to the clipboard in an "user action context").

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