"Randy Webb" <HikksNotAtHome@aol.comwrote in message
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Jaez said the following on 5/10/2007 9:11 AM:
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>As a newbie to javascript and asp.net 2 I have come across a problem
>related to the windows clipboard.
>>
>I have written an application in vb6 which collects data and puts it on
>the user's clipboard in windows. On leaving that application it opens my
>webpage in IE6 or 7. The page displays a text box and the user is
>required to paste the clipboard into the text box.
>>
>I read about window.clipboardData.getData('Text') and it seems an idea
>way of pasting the contents of the clipboard straight into the text box
>during webpage load.
>>
>My problem is that my pages are written in asp.net 2 (VB style) and I
>have failed in all attempts to get the clipboard to paste to an asp.net
>textbox. I realise that its a job for javascript on the client side.
>>
>What i need is something like
>>
> Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
>System.EventArgs)
> textbox2.text=window.clipboardData.getData("Text") ;
> End Sub
>>
>I have also tried
>>
>response.write("<script
>type='text/javascript'>textbox2.text=window.clipboardData.get Data('Text')</script>");
>>
>I rather suspect that I need to make a jasvascript function but have no
>idea how to make a function that returns a variable that can be picked up
>in asp.net during form load
>
Pure clientside JS (there are probably other ways):
>
window.onload = setValue;
>
function setValue(){
textbox2.value=window.clipboardData.getData('Text' )
}
>
You set a value, not the .text. Also, you may want to break the habit of
using the IE shortcut of textbox2 referring to an element with ID/NAME of
textbox2 as it will break any browser other than IE.
>
--
Randy
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Thanks Randy
I have tried adding the code in a number of ways and am still stuck
I get TexBox1 undefined
Here is my test page
<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Response.Write("<script type='text/javascript'window.onload = setValue;
function
setValue(){TextBox1.value=window.clipboardData.get Data('Text')}</scr" &
"ipt>")
End Sub
Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs)
Response.Write("<script type='text/javascript'window.onload = setValue;
function
setValue(){TextBox1.value=window.clipboardData.get Data('Text')}</scr" &
"ipt>")
End Sub
</script>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" OnClick="Button1_Click"
Text="Button" />
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Height="70px"
Width="531px"></asp:TextBox>
<script type='text/javascript'window.onload = setValue; function
setValue(){TextBox1.value=window.clipboardData.get Data('Text')}</script>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Jaez
