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Copying text to the clipboard using Java

October 23, 2022 by Tarik

This works for me and is quite simple: Import these: import java.awt.datatransfer.StringSelection; import java.awt.Toolkit; import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard; And then put this snippet of code wherever you’d like to alter the clipboard: String myString = “This text will be copied into clipboard”; StringSelection stringSelection = new StringSelection(myString); Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard(); clipboard.setContents(stringSelection, null);

How to copy text to the client’s clipboard using jQuery? [duplicate]

October 20, 2022 by Tarik

Copying to the clipboard is a tricky task to do in Javascript in terms of browser compatibility. The best way to do it is using a small flash. It will work on every browser. You can check it in this article. Here’s how to do it for Internet Explorer: function copy (str) { //for IE … Read more

How to send data to local clipboard from a remote SSH session

October 15, 2022 by Tarik

My favorite way is ssh [remote-machine] “cat log.txt” | xclip -selection c. This is most useful when you don’t want to (or can’t) ssh from remote to local. Edit: on Cygwin ssh [remote-machine] “cat log.txt” > /dev/clipboard. Edit: A helpful comment from nbren12: It is almost always possible to setup a reverse ssh connection using … Read more

Copy text to clipboard with iOS

October 14, 2022 by Tarik

Although the accepted answer is a good walkthrough of how UIPasteboard works, I figured I’d post the relevant snippet right here for everyone’s convenience: Obj-C UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard]; pasteboard.string = @”Paste me!”; Swift 2.2 let pasteBoard = UIPasteboard.generalPasteboard() pasteBoard.string = “Paste me!” Swift 3+: let pasteBoard = UIPasteboard.general pasteBoard.string = “Paste me!”

Yank file name / path of current buffer in Vim

October 12, 2022 by Tarik

TL;DR :let @” = expand(“%”)> this will copy the file name to the unamed register, then you can use good old p to paste it. and of course you can map this to a key for quicker use. :nmap cp :let @” = expand(“%”)<cr> you can also use this for full path :let @” = … Read more

How to copy a selection to the OS X clipboard

October 10, 2022 by Tarik

For MacVim and Windows Gvim, simply add the following to your ~/.vimrc: set clipboard=unnamed Now all operations such as yy, D, and P work with the clipboard. No need to prefix them with “* or “+.

Python script to copy text to clipboard [duplicate]

October 7, 2022 by Tarik

See Pyperclip. Example (taken from Pyperclip site): import pyperclip pyperclip.copy(‘The text to be copied to the clipboard.’) spam = pyperclip.paste() Also, see Xerox. But it appears to have more dependencies.

How do I copy a string to the clipboard?

October 6, 2022 by Tarik

Actually, pywin32 and ctypes seem to be an overkill for this simple task. Tkinter is a cross-platform GUI framework, which ships with Python by default and has clipboard accessing methods along with other cool stuff. If all you need is to put some text to system clipboard, this will do it: from Tkinter import Tk … Read more

How do I copy the contents of a String to the clipboard in C#? [duplicate]

October 1, 2022 by Tarik

You can use System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetText(…).

JavaScript get clipboard data on paste event (Cross browser)

September 25, 2022 by Tarik

Solution #1 (Plain Text only and requires Firefox 22+) Works for IE6+, FF 22+, Chrome, Safari, Edge (Only tested in IE9+, but should work for lower versions) If you need support for pasting HTML or Firefox <= 22, see Solution #2. function handlePaste(e) { var clipboardData, pastedData; // Stop data actually being pasted into div … Read more