Copying to Clipboard

[master]

The problem is how to copy over some text into user clipboard.

- The experimental api allows this but not allowed in extensions to be
uploaded.
- The javascript call to copy to clipboard not allowed .
- The routing through flash also not working.

Any other alternate solutions?

[Boris Smus]

There is a long thread about this here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/400212/how-to-copy-to-clipboard-in-javascript. At the moment, the best way to do this is still by going through a small flash object.

- Boris

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[Scott Fujan]

Javascript call is allowed -- but only in the background page.
Flash should work.

[Anil Shanbhag]

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Zero Clipboard Does Not Work From Local Disk

This is a security restriction by Adobe Flash Player. Unfortunately, since we are utilizing the JavaScript-to-Flash interface ("ExternalInterface") this only works while truly online (if the page URL starts with "http://" or "https://"). It won't work running from a local file on disk.

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I havent tried with background page yet but will try.

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[watts]

I just solved this yesterday (my variable name is lacking but this
works rather well - for Windows anyways).

1) Add this to the background page:
<script>
chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(function(request, sender,
sendResponse) {
if(request.entry != "") {
clipCopy(request.entry);
sendResponse({});
}
});

function clipCopy(text) {
clipboardholder= document.getElementById("clipboardholder");
clipboardholder.style.display = "block";
clipboardholder.value = text;
clipboardholder.select();
document.execCommand("Copy");
clipboardholder.style.display = "none";
}
</script>
<textarea id="clipboardholder" style="display:none;"></textarea>


2) Add this to the content script:
function copyme(text) {
chrome.extension.sendRequest({entry: text}, function(response) {
});

[watts]

Taken from here, btw:
http://farter.users.sourceforge.net/blog/2010/11/20/accessing-operating-system-clipboard-in-chromium-chrome-extensions/