clipboard

[Jaez]

I have a VB6 application running on my laptop that outputs text to the
clipboard.

I would like to open a webpage hosted on my asp.net 2 powered website and
when the webpage opens a textbox already has a copy of the text from the
clipboard displayed in it

I have seen the following line suggested as a possibility

window.clipboardData.getData("Text");

but have no idea how to add this to my form load code beyond this which
doesnt work?

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs)
textbox2.text=window.clipboardData.getData("Text");
End Sub

Jaez

 

[Scott M.]

ASP.NET is server-side code. To access the client's clipboard, you need
client-side code.

 

[Jaez]

Scott M. Thanks for your comments

I realize that I need to run the code on the clients station as the
clipboard in question is the clients clipboard and that I need the ASP.NET
server-side code to generate Javascript on the client.

The question is HOW do I get something like
textbox2.text=window.clipboardData.getData("Text"); to run at the client and
return the text into an ASP type textbox

Jaez

 

[Scott M.]

response.write("<script
type='text/javascript'>textbox2.text=window.clipboardData.getData('Text')</script>");

 

[Jaez]

I am really sorry to have to persist but adding the line given my Scott M
into the form load procedure I can still not get it to paste the clipboard
contents into textbox2.text as the form loads.

I tried putting as a button click and nothing gets printed

More help please

 

[Scott M.]

How do you even know what the user has (if anything) on their clipboard?

 

[Jaez]

Because they are running an application we have written in VB6 that puts the
data on the clipboard and then opens the webpage from code

All I need to know is how to get the result of the
window.clipboardData.getData('Text') into an asp.net textbox and the line
response.write("<script
type='text/javascript'>textbox2.text=window.clipboardData.getData('Text')</script>");
gets the clipboard but does not seem to communicate with textbox2.text

Jaez

 

[Scott M.]

According to this article, it's not clipboard that you want:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536436.aspx