If you want something less idyllic and a quick (and hopefully not nasty) solution . . .
you might train the user to Crtl+Click or double click the components they want to copy. Declare a global Tstringlist, and create in the form FormCreate event, (free it in the form's ondestroy I think), attach to the copyable components' onmousedown a method (common for components of common descent) to test the mouse down for a CRTL presence or just use the ondoubleclick.
Once fired, in the chosen method add to the Tstringlist the caption or text property contents.
Add a popup menu item for the form, "Copy Chosen" or something, and put the text held in the Tstringlist onto the clipboard, or write it to stream, or send a wm_CopyData message, and always clear the Tstringlist for the next round.
As I said not idyllic but good enough sometimes.
Paul
On 25/10/05, Paul McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you looked into converting the Form (Selected area) to a canvas.
I can't remember how to do this (many years since I looked into this area) - I think you can print
the form to a file that may give the canvas or there are functions to convert the form to a canvas -
It may be as easy as just looking at the Form.Canvas.
HTH
This may give some new direction or ideas...
Regards
Paul McKenzie
Wellington
New Zealand
John Bird wrote:
> Even if I use one of the copy/paste aware controls, ideally what I want to
> do is to allow users to drag and select over a range of the screen. That is
> give the user the freedom to select and copy whatever they want as though
> they were in a text document/email/word document etc...
>
> eg to pick up a name and 3 address lines in one selection.
> These are in 4 different controls, so I don't think I can do that anyway
> with any normal components....
>
> John
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> -----Original Message-----
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>
> For Data, you should be using StaticText. Labels are not for
> dynamic information. I still dont know if Copy/Paste will work... but it
> is the more appropriate component for your purpose.
>
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> With data displayed in labels on a form or data displayed in
> stringlists (read only) there seems no way to use the clipboard to
> copy and paste data. Is there a way around this, or to allow a copy
> and paste option do I have to either (i) put the data in the clipboard
> programmatically or (ii) use a different control to display data.
>
> John
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>
> Rohit
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