Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Plug-in for copying to clipboard

It is a hobby of mine to generate code. I use Apex as a shell to enter the parameters and display the result. Usually the result is a text area in which the code is contained. After generating the text I can select the code and copy the result to the clipboard. But I want it to be a bit more comfortable.

So this is why I developed this plug-in. It is a dynamic action plug-in that you can use in any DA, but usually it will be a DA fired from a button. It is used in the page to generate substitution code:



Implementing this functionality is as easy as importing the plug-in and call it in the dynamic action behind the click on the button. Select the item of which the content should be copied and you are off to go:


You can see this plug-in in action on the demo page for this plug-in.

You can find the plug-in on apex.world.

Happy Apexing!
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous30 August 2017 at 03:27

    Unfortunately it is not copying an item that is display only or hidden. I was hopeful on hidden as your page indicates. Any hints/tips?

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  2. Dick Dral1 September 2017 at 14:34

    You are right, the previous version of the plug-in did not support Apex hidden items.
    There is a new version of the plug-in avalianble on apex.world.
    This version support Apex hidden items and JQuery selectors.

    Thanks,
    Dick

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  3. Graham MacLeod5 July 2019 at 11:34

    Thanks for this. Light weight, easy to use, and does what it says on the tin.

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