Clipboard Copy/Cut/Paste

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Created: symbianyucca (30 Mar 2007)

Last edited: hamishwillee (20 Jul 2012)

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You can use the clipboard directly with a CEikEdwin derived editor by first letting the user set a selection or setting the selection by using the SetSelectionL()method. Then to use the clipboard CEikEdwin implements the ClipboardL() method. To cut the selection to the clipboard use CEikEdwin::ECut as argument for the function, CEikEdwin::ECopy for copying and CEikEdwin::EPaste for pasting the text to the currently selected location.

To set text to the clipboard without using CEikEdwin you can use the following code:

void SetTextToClipBoardL(const TDesC& aText)
{
	CClipboard* cb =
CClipboard::NewForWritingLC(CCoeEnv::Static()->FsSession());
 
	cb->StreamDictionary().At(KClipboardUidTypePlainText);
 
	CPlainText* BPlainText = CPlainText::NewL();
	CleanupStack::PushL(BPlainText);
 
	BPlainText->InsertL(0,aText);
 
	BPlainText->CopyToStoreL(cb->Store(), cb->StreamDictionary(), 0,
BPlainText->DocumentLength());
 
	CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(); // BPlainText
	cb->CommitL();
	CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(); // cb
}

And to get text from the clipboard you could utilize following example code:

CPlainText* GetTextFromClipBoardL(void)
{
	CPlainText* BPlainText = CPlainText::NewL();
	CleanupStack::PushL(BPlainText);
 
	CClipboard* cb =
CClipboard::NewForReadingL(CCoeEnv::Static()->FsSession());
	CleanupStack::PushL(cb);
	cb->StreamDictionary().At(KClipboardUidTypePlainText);
 
	BPlainText->PasteFromStoreL(cb->Store(), cb->StreamDictionary(), 0);
 
	// the text is now inside the BPlainText 
 
	cb->CommitL();
	CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(); // cb
 
	CleanupStack::Pop(); // BPlainText
	return BPlainText;
}