On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Bruce Fillmore <[email protected]>wrote:
> I am looking to fire a command to automatically copy a static map (already > generated and displayed in browser) to the clipboard, so that I can embed > the map as OLE object in another application. This could be a standalone > application that I can trigger from my other application. The static map I > am generating is in png file format. > > Most browsers heavily restrict accessing the system clipboard from a web page. Your best bet is to use an Adobe Flash object to copy data into the user's clipboard; there are many libraries available for this such as ZeroClipboard https://github.com/zeroclipboard/ZeroClipboard The only problem is that it's very difficult to copy an image to the clipboard; ZeroClipboard does text only. You'll need to do quite a large amount of programming work to get image support. The best and easiest way - IMO - would be to instruct the user on how to copy images manually; i.e. right click on the image and click Copy from the contextual menu. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Bruce Fillmore <[email protected]>wrote: > I am not a programmer so this is all new to me. > > It might be better to hire a programmer to do this, clipboard access involves a lot of work. ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL App Engine Code Samples: http://www.learntogoogleit.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
