[DUG] Copy and Paste

[John Bird]

Even if I use one of the copy/paste aware controls, ideally what I want to
do is to allow users to drag and select over a range of the screen.  That is
give the user the freedom to select and copy whatever they want as though
they were in a text document/email/word document etc...

eg to pick up a name and 3 address lines in one selection. 
These are in 4 different controls, so I don't think I can do that anyway
with any normal components....

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Rohit Gupta [mailto:rohit at cfl.co.nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:18 a.m.
To: johnkbird at paradise.net.nz; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Copy and Paste


For Data, you should be using StaticText.  Labels are not for 
dynamic information.  I still dont know if Copy/Paste will work... but it 
is the more appropriate component for your purpose.

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With data displayed in labels on a form or data displayed in 
stringlists (read only) there seems no way to use the clipboard to 
copy and paste data. Is there a way around this, or to allow a copy 
and paste option do I have to either (i) put the data in the clipboard 
programmatically or (ii) use a different control to display data.

John


Regards

Rohit

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