Text input widget, copy from clipboard

[nathanm]

Is there any way to allow the text input widget to accept CTRL-C copying text from the clipboard?

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by nathanm

Is there any way to allow the text input widget to accept CTRL-C copying text from the clipboard?

Nope, the standard Sage text widget does not support this. I needed something like this in SageMC and had to write my own text widget for pasting from the clipboard with ctlr-v (requires java coding though)

Dirk

[nielm]

As mentioned by flachbar, the clipboard is accessible from Java: My dynamic menus have both copy and paste capabilities, and in the default STV, there is some code to copy the placeshifter locator ID to the clipboard.

"REM copy string "text" to windows clipboard"
+- Clipboard =java_awt_Toolkit_getSystemClipboard(java_awt_Toolkit_getDefaultToolkit())
+- LocIDTransfer =new_java_awt_datatransfer_StringSelection(text)
+- java_awt_datatransfer_Clipboard_setContents(Clipboard, LocIDTransfer, LocIDTransfer)

for getting strings from clipboard in pure STV code, its a little more complicated, so I added it as an exported STV.

Alternatively you can use my sageUtils pagage:

text=net_sf_sageplugins_sageutils_GetClipboard_GetString()

As for handling CTRL-C and CTRL-V as keyboard shortcuts, you can get the events with the RawKeyboard listener