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9300/9500 clipboard copy via OPL?

3 replies · 2,337 views · Started 23 May 2005

kitebuggy 23 May 2005, 15:25

Any pointers on how to copy to clipboard in an OPL app?

The only hints I've seen so far involve writing to the clipboard file, but the format appears different than in previous Epoc/Symbian releases. Can anyone shed any light on this, please?

Thanks,

Jason.

Arjen 24 May 2005, 02:06

I did some checking and found that the clipboard format in the 9210/9300/9500 is not documented. There is an API in the SDK that allows reading and writing to the clipboard, but this is not accessible from OPL.

The only solution I can think of is writing an OPX for clipboard access (I'll look into it). If you only need the copied and pasted data within your own program, you can simply use an external file to store the data.

kitebuggy 24 May 2005, 09:23

I'm not sure a whole OPX would be worth all the effort. It's probably easier to reverse engineer the format of the clipboard data file and simply write to it directly.

All I'm interested in is writing a phonenumber to the clipboard so it can be pasted into the telephone app. Unless anyone knows an OPX/OPL call equivalent to telephone_this_number 😞 phonenum$) ?

Thanks,

Jason.