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meekismurder · 2009-01-20 10:45 pm

Hello everybody. I've been trying to figure this out for a while. I'm writing a Dashboard Widget that I would like to have a "Paste" button that spits the contents of the clipboard into a text area. Obviously you can just hit apple-V and it works, but I'd like to have a button there too. After searching for a while, the only way I've found to do this in Javascript seem to only work in MS IE:

Code:

var pasteText = document.selection.createRange(); 
pasteText.execCommand("paste");

This gives me an "Undefined Value" error. Anyone know a way to do this that would work in Dashcode?

Last edited by meekismurder (2009-01-20 10:45 pm)

Miles · 2009-01-20 11:13 pm

Code:

document.getElementById('theArea').value = widget.system('/usr/bin/pbpaste', null).outputString

meekismurder · 2009-01-20 11:23 pm

Hmm, that is giving me the following error:

Code:

Value undefined (result of expression widget.system) is not object

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Dashcode Javascript Copy/Paste?

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#3 2009-01-20 11:23 pm

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