Liberty BASIC Clipboard Commands

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Native Clipboard Functions

Liberty BASIC Text windows and Texteditor controls have built-in functions to send text to the Windows clipboard and to retrieve text from the clipboard.

Here are the commands and their explanations.


print #handle, "!copy" ;

This causes the currently selected text to be copied to the WINDOWS clipboard.


print #handle, "!cut" ;

This causes the currently selected text to be cut out of the text window and copied to the WINDOWS clipboard.


print #handle, "!paste" ;

This causes the text in the WINDOWS clipboard (if there is any) to be pasted into the text window at the current cursor position.


print #handle, "!selectall" ;

This causes everything in the text window to be selected.


Accessing the clipboard behind the scenes.

If you have a need to send or retrieve text from the clipboard, you can place a hidden texteditor control on your window. To hide it, simply give it width and height of 0, or give it a location that is outside the window boundaries. Click here for a demo.

To send text to the clipboard:

  1. clear the texteditor
  2. print desired text to texteditor
  3. select all text in texteditor
  4. choose "cut" or "copy" and send text to clipboard.


nomainwin
WindowWidth=230:WindowHeight=320
texteditor #1.hide,-400,-400,0,0
texteditor #1.t, 10,10,200,200
button #1.b, "Get Clipboard Text",[getText],UL,10,230
open "Clipboard Demo" for window_nf as #1
#1 "trapclose [quit]"

'put text in hidden texteditor
#1.hide "!cls"  'clear
#1.hide "This text goes to the clipboard!"

wait
[quit] close #1:end

[getText]
'select text in hidden texteditor
#1.hide "!selectall"

'copy selected text to clipboard
#1.hide "!copy"

'clear texteditor:
#1.t "!cls"

'paste clipboard text into texteditor
#1.t "!paste"

'just for demo, select text in texteditor:
#1.t "!selectall" ;

'get text into a variable
#1.t "!selection? selected$"

notice "Text on clipboard was "+chr$(34)+selected$+chr$(34)
wait


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