[DUG] Copy and Paste

[Paul McKenzie]

Have you looked into converting the Form (Selected area) to a canvas.
I can't remember how to do this (many years since I looked into this area) - I think you can print 
the form to a file that may give the canvas or there are functions to convert the form to a canvas - 
  It may be as easy as just looking at the Form.Canvas.

HTH

This may give some new direction or ideas...

Regards
Paul McKenzie
Wellington
New Zealand


John Bird wrote:
> 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
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> 
> 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.
> 
> From:	"John Bird" <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz>
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> Subject:	[DUG]  Copy and Paste
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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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