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copy to clipboard-button
so it would be more like the look and feel of the native keepass apps
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repo owner There will be NO copy to clipboard function. This requires an active object (such as Flash, or Java applet) and I am not willing to use them.
I will consider an auto-selected text so that the use only needs to Ctrl-C (or Cmd-C).
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reporter makes sense, because of potential security issues with flash, java, etc.. Thank you :)
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What about supporting some plugin like https://github.com/myplaceonline/myplaceonline_ffclipboard ? With a timeout to clean the clipboard after 10s for instance.
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repo owner Good news. Some Chrome developer has spent time working on official support for ClipboardEvent constructor a few days ago.
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=496394
As far as I know, Firefox has this constructor but the default security policy is too strict for it to be useful.
Sample code:
<html> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> function getText() { return document.getElementById("copyme").value; } function copyHandler(evt) { evt.clipboardData.setData('text', getText()); evt.preventDefault(); } document.body.addEventListener('copy', copyHandler); function copyCreate() { var evt = new ClipboardEvent('copy', {dataType: 'text', data: getText()}); evt.preventDefault(); document.dispatchEvent(evt); } </script> <textarea id="copyme"></textarea> <button onclick="document.execCommand('copy');">Exec Copy</button> <button onclick="copyCreate();">Create Copy</button> </body> </html>
If you use recent Chrome, the "Exec Copy" should copy the content from the text area into clipboard. Once the bug I mentioned above is committed, the "Create Copy" will also work.
In Firefox, however, neither button works. The first one generates an
NS_ERROR_FAILURE
. This is because the document is not in "design mode", or that "content editable" is false. Changed to design mode progressed a little further toSecurityError: The operation is insecure
. This is because of default security policy. Users will have to edituser.js
file for it to work.In short, there is not yet a cross browser method to work with system clipboard. And I am sorry that there will be no support for this (much wanted) feature in BrowsePass in a foreseeable future across many browsers. I do not intend to support third party plugins (such as ffclipboard, as you suggested).
Perhaps I'll incorporate copy-to-clipboard to Chrome first and we'll see how it goes.
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repo owner @kreisel @jean_yves_toumit Version 0.7.3 supports copy to clipboard.
However, I must note that there is NO clearing of clipboard. The reason is that any action involving the clipboard MUST originate from the users (such as by clicking a button, typing a hot key). The web app cannot automatically affect the system clipboard.
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