Copy NSAttributedString in UIPasteBoard

I have found that when I (as a user of the application) copy rich text from a UITextView into the pasteboard, the pasteboard contains two types: “public.text”, “Apple Web Archive pasteboard type Based on that, I created a convenient category on UIPasteboard. (With heavy use of code from this answer). It works, but: The conversion … Read more

Enable copy and paste on UITextField without making it editable

My final solution was the following: I created a subclass of UILabel (UITextField should work the same) that displays a UIMenuController after being tapped. CopyableLabel.m looks like this: @implementation CopyableLabel – (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender { if(action == @selector(copy:)) { return YES; } else { return [super canPerformAction:action withSender:sender]; } } – (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder { return YES; } … Read more

Get text from clipboard using GetText – avoid error on empty clipboard

Handle the errors with On Error GoTo as shown here: Sub GetClipBoardText() Dim DataObj As MSForms.DataObject Set DataObj = New MsForms.DataObject ‘<~~ Amended as per jp’s suggestion On Error GoTo Whoa ‘~~> Get data from the clipboard. DataObj.GetFromClipboard ‘~~> Get clipboard contents myString = DataObj.GetText(1) MsgBox myString Exit Sub Whoa: If Err <> 0 Then … Read more

Python: Catch Ctrl-C command. Prompt “really want to quit (y/n)”, resume execution if no

The python signal handlers do not seem to be real signal handlers; that is they happen after the fact, in the normal flow and after the C handler has already returned. Thus you’d try to put your quit logic within the signal handler. As the signal handler runs in the main thread, it will block … Read more

Javascript OnPaste

The onpaste event fires before the input‘s value is changed. You need something such as a setTimeout: <input type=”text” placeholder=”Paste text” onPaste=”var e=this; setTimeout(function(){alert(e.value);}, 4);”>​ I’m storing a reference to this inside a global var as this is not accessible inside the scope of a timeout function which is attached to the window object. I’m … Read more

Excel VBA How to detect if something was pasted in a Worksheet

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) Dim UndoList As String ‘~~> Get the undo List to capture the last action performed by user UndoList = Application.CommandBars(“Standard”).Controls(“&Undo”).List(1) ‘~~> Check if the last action was not a paste nor an autofill If Left(UndoList, 5) = “Paste” Then ‘Do stuff End If End Sub This did the trick. … Read more

How to Copy Text to Clip Board in Android?

use ClipboardManager ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText(label, text); clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip); make sure you have imported android.content.ClipboardManager and NOT android.text.ClipboardManager. Latter is deprecated. Check this link for Further information.

jQuery bind to Paste Event, how to get the content of the paste

There is an onpaste event that works in modern day browsers. You can access the pasted data using the getData function on the clipboardData object. $(“#textareaid”).bind(“paste”, function(e){ // access the clipboard using the api var pastedData = e.originalEvent.clipboardData.getData(‘text’); alert(pastedData); } ); Note that bind and unbind are deprecated as of jQuery 3. The preferred call … Read more