Clipboard operations using Qt

The Qt clipboard offers a simple mechanism to copy and paste data between different applications or between the same widget in am application. QClipboard supports the same data types as QDrag, and uses similar mechanisms.

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Tested with

Devices(s): S60 for Emulator

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Compatibility

Platform(s): S60 3rd Edition, FP1, FP2
S60 5th Edition

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Article

Keywords: QClipboard

Created: mind_freak (09 Jul 2009)

Last edited: hamishwillee (11 Oct 2012)

Source code

Note: This code is used only to copy the text content, code for MIME data is shown later in this section.

Header File

#ifndef BOARD_H
#define BOARD_H
 
#include <QtGui/QWidget>
#include<QClipboard>
#include<QString>
#include<QLineEdit>
#include<QPushButton>
#include<QVBoxLayout>
#include<QApplication>
#include<QMessageBox>
class board : public QWidget
{
    Q_OBJECT
 
public:
    board(QWidget *parent = 0);
    ~board();
private slots:
    void copy();
    void paste();
private:
    QLineEdit *edit;
    QPushButton *but;
    QPushButton *but1;
    QLineEdit *edit1;
    QVBoxLayout *lay;
    QClipboard *cb;
    QString str;
    QString str1;
    QMessageBox *box;
 
 
};
 
#endif // BOARD_H

Source File

#include "board.h"
 
board::board(QWidget *parent)
    : QWidget(parent)
{
 
    edit=new QLineEdit();
 
     box=new QMessageBox(this);
     but=new QPushButton(tr("Copy"),this);
    but1=new QPushButton(tr("Paste"),this);
    edit1=new QLineEdit(this);
 
    lay=new QVBoxLayout(this);
    cb=QApplication::clipboard();
    setStyleSheet("* { background-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(255,255,255); padding: 7px}}");
    QObject::connect(but,SIGNAL(clicked()),this,SLOT(copy()));
    QObject::connect(but1,SIGNAL(clicked()),this,SLOT(paste()));
    lay->addWidget(edit);
    lay->addWidget(but);
    lay->addWidget(but1);
    lay->addWidget(edit1);
 
 
    setLayout(lay);
    showMaximized();
 
}
 
board::~board()
{
 // No need to delete any object that got a parent that is properly deleted.
}
void board::copy()
{
 
    str=edit->text();
    cb->setText(str);//Text copied to clipboard
    box->setText("Text copied to clipboard");
    box->exec();
 
 
}
void board::paste()
{
    str1=cb->text();//text reterived from clipboard
    edit1->setText(str1);
}

Advance clipboard(MIME data manipulation)

• Copying of MIME data

void board::copy()
{
    QApplication::clipboard()->setData(dragObject());
}

• Pasting of MIME data

void MyTable::paste()
{
    QMimeSource *source = QApplication::clipboard()->data();
    if (CellDrag::canDecode(source)) {
    QString str;
    CellDrag::decode(source, str);
    performPaste(str);
    }
}

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