About the license, you said “this software is licensed under GPL”.
Did you mean the javascript part, flash part, or both?

Thanks

Welcome to the world of javascript! Here’s an example of how you might implement this.

Make sure to include the js script (above) in your html first. Then you could call the copy function using a link for example.

<form name="formtocopy" action="">
<textarea name="texttocopy">
A whole bunch of text here that will be copied.
</textarea>
<br>
<a href="javascript:copy(document.formtocopy.texttocopy);">Copy the Text!</a>
</form>


You don’t HAVE to call the copy function from a link, you could call it from another javascript function if you wanted. It will copy the value from whatever html element you pass as the argument to the function.

Hope that helps you.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_the_Clipboard

I posted the full code on my site.

This is really neat solution. Are both files, the flash and script, licensed under GPL?

Thanks,

Henry

But anyway thanks for the solution

thank
Dean

I’ve found that changing the statement from +escape(text2copy)+ to +(text2copy)+ fixed the problem of displaying ä, ö, ü, etc. In other words, just remove the word escape. When I tried to remove the entire thing, copying wouldn’t work anymore (at least not in the way I was using it).

As to the data being truncated, I got around that by placing the text in a $variable and using echo addslashes($variable); to escape special characters and display the data.

Hope that helps someone.

I think what you mean by “truncated” is replaced by spaces.
The culprit of this issue is indeed the escape() function call in the supporting script.

I think you’ll find that if you replace the call to escape() with a call to encodeURIComponent(), you’ll find the plus signs will be copied as you expect.

As can be seen in the Javascript Documentation:
The escape() function encodes special characters, with the exception of:
* @ - _ + . /

Now the problem is that the copy() function above actually adds an embed tag to the page with a flashvars attribute. The flashvars attribute is used by action script in the _clipboard.swf and the ‘+’ characters are interpreted as spaces.

The reason why using the encodeURIComponent() function works is because it encodes all characters for use in a URI, including the * @ - _ + . /

It’s a good point, and I’ll update the original post with this fix.

Thanks.

Thanks,
Shaul

(sorry for my bad english)

[Copy URL to Clipboard]

Also, I’d like an alert box that confirms the copy. Thanks for helping this js newb!

href=”#” onclick=”copy(inElement);return false;”

I found your post after trying to solve the + sign problem. I’ve tweaked my own code to use encodeURIComponent - and the + sign is encoded properly - but when it’s pasted out of the clipboard, it’s set as %2B.

I’ve tried it using the _clipboard.swf you’ve provided out of an empty cache and I still get the %2B. Does this definitely work, or can you possibly send me the source to the SWF so I can have a go at debugging it?

Cheers.

http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=73084

Did you find a way how to pass line breaks (\n) in the textarea-field to the flash?

When I have textarea with multiple lines and I use this function and then copy the contents of the clipboard into notepad i get a multi-line output with IE but with Firefox all the linebreaks get replaced by squares.

function escape_breaks(str) {
str = encodeURIComponent(str);
var newstring = str.replace(/%0A/g, “%0D%0A”);
return newstring;
}

在IE底下可以很方便的，就由一個按鍵或是很直接的自動複製連結，那是因為IE可以操控到電腦的剪貼簿，但是Firefox、Opera、Safari等等的不可能簡單的利用Javascript達成啦！
所以在Google的幫助下…

How do I copy plain HTML instead of getting this:

;<a href="http://www.domain.com">

Did you ever managet to find a solution for pasting FROM clipboard into browsers?

Cheers,

Adrian

You can download it from here (the link is “Cliquez ici pour télécharger notre version”).

You just need to use copy(”Whatever you want”) from any script. Shall you need carriage return, add “\n” (without quotes) to your string.

Also I don’t understand what the swf file does… Can some one explain this. I have tried several ways to get this to work in “Edit Plus” but it only seams to work with IE.. Am I doing something wrong?

But I want pure clean code.

As a developer/webmaster, you can’t expect everyone to have Flash installed at their computers.

Theres got to be another way out of this . . .

Firstly thanks for the script.
There is an error in the revised script that you have posted to get around the +* problem of javascipt escape().

The scripts does NOT work with the line encodeURIComponent(inElement.value)

It works only when it is changed to encodeURIComponent(inElement)