[DUG] Copy and Paste

[Kyley Harris]

Simple Option...


1/ Turn off HideSelection on the controls you want to do multi select
from.... This allows them to select from more than one control.
2/ override keypress and controll the copy paste keys yourself like
this little hack

procedure TForm1.FormKeyUp(Sender: TObject; var Key: Word;
  Shift: TShiftState);
var
  s:string;
  i:integer;
begin
  if shift = [ssCtrl] then
  begin
    if ( Key = Ord('C') ) or (Key = ord('c')) then
    begin
      for i := 0 to ControlCount -1 do
        if Controls[i] is TEdit then
        begin
          if (Controls[i] as TEdit).SelLength > 0 then
            s := s + (Controls[i] as TEdit).SelText + #13#10;
        end;

        ShowMessage(s);
    end;
  end;
end;


you now have multi selections with visibility


On 10/25/05, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz> 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
>
>
> 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>
> To:     "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz>
> Subject:        [DUG]  Copy and Paste
> Date sent:      Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:02:46 +1300
> Organization:   John Bird Consulting
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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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