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Plain text clipboard1/29/2024 Public static void CopyToClipboard(string html, string plainText)ĭataObject.SetData(DataFormats.Html, data) ĭataObject.SetData(DataFormats. The number of clips to appear on the menu is controlled in the Options. Select any previous text clip from menu below Clipboard history stack, the youngest most recent clip is the (top) and the oldest is on the (bottom). The complete code I come up with based on Mike’s code: UpdateĪlthough basically works, I have made a few mistakes in this code, see: Setting HTML/Text to Clipboard revisited for better clipboard handling. The top of the clipboard history contains the current clip on the clipboard. To handle html and plain text paste you can’t use Clipboard.SetText method as it clears the clipboard each time called, you need to create DataObject instance, call its SetData method once with html format and once with text format, and then set the object to clipboard using Clipboard.SetDataObject. Worked like a charm to paste rich html text!īut then when I tried to paste to non rich editor like Notepad I got nothing, it actually what I excepted. Turning to Google I finally found this post, harder to find than what I expected, that explained what needs to be done.Īpparently when setting html text you need to provide a header with additional information to what fragment of the html you actually want to paste while being able to provide additional styling around it: My first thought was to use Clipboard.SetText method with TextDataFormat.Html but to my surprise it just didn’t work. It depends largely on how you work on Windows machines if you find the program useful or superfluous.Working on adding text selection and copy-paste to HTML Renderer I wanted to add rich text copy capability. PlainPaste is a portable program for Windows designed to provide you with options to cut, paste or copy data without formatting to and from the clipboard. So, if you need to use plain Clipboard operations at times, you may find the program useful for that as it retains the old functionality, but adds the plain options to it. You may need to experiment with the delay to find the right balance between firing the event off to plain paste, copy or cut, and the delay you are experiencing when using the normal copy, paste functionality. There you may also change the shortcut delay. ![]() You need to open the preferences of the application to enable it for copying or cutting as well. How can I use QClipboard to take Rich-text that can also be pasted as plain text python qt copy-paste pyside Share Improve this question Follow asked at 14:46 Doug T. PlainPaste enables the option for pasting only by default. For plain-text editors the non-rendered plain text is pasted into the plain text editor. This works really well, but has the disadvantage that you will notice a delay during regular pasting operations. The program delays the double-key presses a bit for that to give you enough time to press the shortcut a second time before the content is pasted. Instead of using the keyboard shortcut once to paste text, you use it twice to do a plain paste. ![]() PlainPaste is a portable program for Windows that introduces the plain copying, pasting and cutting functionality globally. Some users may paste the text to a plain text editor before they copy and paste it again to the program they want to paste it to without formatting. Works, but takes more time than it should. If the programs you use don't support this functionality however, you will have to find another way. ![]() Firefox and Thunderbird support the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-V for instance which always pastes text as plain text without formatting. ![]() Some programs allow you to do that natively. While that may be desired at times, it can be problematic if you need to paste the textual contents to an editor that supports the formatting, but want to paste it without it. If you copy or paste text on a Windows machine, the formatting of the text is copied along with it to the Windows Clipboard.
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