copy & past on mouse section and focus

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i need to build a tool to copy all the text that is selected by mouse.that means the text must get copy when i select
the particular condense by mouse selection from any where
and must paste in text box when the mouse point to the text box.keyboard and mouse copy paste must not be used physically.

Posted 15-Sep-11 22:41pm

sajithnet

Updated 15-Sep-11 22:42pm

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Mehdi Gholam 16-Sep-11 4:47am

What's wrong with ctrl+c ctrl+v ??

OriginalGriff 16-Sep-11 5:18am

Why? That would annoy the heck out of me, and probably out of anyone who is familiar with Windows. The rule is: you only affect the clipboard when the user tells you to.
For example, one of the things I do quite often on this site is highlight a phrase with the mouse, then paste on a link address - the site then converts this to a proper link with the text as the human readable part. You system would bugger that up completely, and annoy me immensely.

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Reiss · Answer 1 · 2011-09-15T23:33:00

Totally agree with Mehdi Gholam and OriginalGriff - if you really must copy text on selection and paste on mouse point at least use a drag/drop gesture similar to how office does it with its cut/paste operation - this way the user has a clue what is going on and is actually driving the request rather than accidentally - I would also suggest that if you are going to affect the clipboard doing this, then you restore the clipboard to its original start once you have completed you operation as it is non-intuative to most users.