copy to clipboard-button

What about supporting some plugin like https://github.com/myplaceonline/myplaceonline_ffclipboard ? With a timeout to clean the clipboard after 10s for instance.

2015-06-16T11:50:22+00:00

Nam Nguyen 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 to SecurityError: The operation is insecure. This is because of default security policy. Users will have to edit user.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.

2015-06-22T22:06:29+00:00

Nam Nguyen 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.

2015-06-29T02:28:27+00:00

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