"Randy Webb" <Hi************@aol.comwrote in message
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Jaez said the following on 5/10/2007 9:11 AM:
>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
