Comments on: Storing text in the clipboard using Silverlight 2 http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/05/clipboard-access/ Silverlight, rich client apps and web development Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hai Son http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/05/clipboard-access/comment-page-1/#comment-644 Hai Son Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:05:55 +0000 http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/05/21/clipboard-access/#comment-644 How can to get the clipboard in FireFox? How can to get the clipboard in FireFox?

]]> By: Jeff Wilcox http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/05/clipboard-access/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Jeff Wilcox Tue, 27 May 2008 17:37:02 +0000 http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/05/21/clipboard-access/#comment-156 Tom, I totally hear you. I hope we find a way to add clipboard support into the platform at some point. This is good to hear... This is less an awesome solution, more about the flexibility of the HTML DOM interop features in Silverlight (in my mind at least)... I'm biased, having worked on the interop features quite a bit! -Jeff Tom, I totally hear you. I hope we find a way to add clipboard support into the platform at some point. This is good to hear…

This is less an awesome solution, more about the flexibility of the HTML DOM interop features in Silverlight (in my mind at least)… I’m biased, having worked on the interop features quite a bit!

-Jeff

]]> By: Tom http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/05/clipboard-access/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Tom Fri, 23 May 2008 14:45:37 +0000 http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/05/21/clipboard-access/#comment-153 Oh, I love it! Thanks Jeff, this is some nice work. I don't know if I agree with the direction of your fallback, but to each his own. :) I actually really wanted this functionality for one of my first real Silverlight apps, and now I've got a way. (Can you believe it? Some users can click a button no problem but have a terrible time understanding how to select a big block of text and hit Ctrl+C!) I have to admit though, it now seems more silly than ever that Silverlight doesn't have a method to set the clipboard like Flash does. If it's just too risky for you and you simply MUST have that enforced user interaction, how about providing a built-in control that the user can click on, with a property and/or event supplying the text to be copied to the clipboard? It could be a helpful compromise. Oh, I love it! Thanks Jeff, this is some nice work. I don’t know if I agree with the direction of your fallback, but to each his own. :) I actually really wanted this functionality for one of my first real Silverlight apps, and now I’ve got a way. (Can you believe it? Some users can click a button no problem but have a terrible time understanding how to select a big block of text and hit Ctrl+C!)

I have to admit though, it now seems more silly than ever that Silverlight doesn’t have a method to set the clipboard like Flash does. If it’s just too risky for you and you simply MUST have that enforced user interaction, how about providing a built-in control that the user can click on, with a property and/or event supplying the text to be copied to the clipboard? It could be a helpful compromise.

]]> By: Articles and demos for May 22, 2008 http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/05/clipboard-access/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Articles and demos for May 22, 2008 Thu, 22 May 2008 13:04:24 +0000 http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/05/21/clipboard-access/#comment-150 [...] Storing text in the clipboard using Silverlight 2 - Jeff Wilcox discusses how to provide users the ability to store information on the clipboard from your Silverlight application. There is not such API inside JavaScript, but now Silverlight enables you to do this. However there are some limitations in the available solutions which Jeff pointed out in his article so you can go and read about. [...] [...] Storing text in the clipboard using Silverlight 2 – Jeff Wilcox discusses how to provide users the ability to store information on the clipboard from your Silverlight application. There is not such API inside JavaScript, but now Silverlight enables you to do this. However there are some limitations in the available solutions which Jeff pointed out in his article so you can go and read about. [...]

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