[Gambas-user] Paste into a textarea

[Bruce]

On 28/1/20 4:38 am, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> On 1/27/20 1:15 AM, Bruce wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Is there any way to check or trap that a textarea has just been pasted 
>> into?
>> It's OK for them to type into it, so the Change event doesn't solve my 
>> problem, which is I need to clean up the text that has just been pasted.
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>> ----[ http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/netiquette ]----
> 
> There are two ways that text can be pasted. By keyboard (Ctrl-V) and by 
> mouse (right-click, paste). Trapping the Ctrl-V key event is rather 
> trivial. The only way I can think of off hand to trap a right-click & 
> paste is to track and test for a certain sequence of events. A mouse 
> paste would consist of a MouseDown event followed by a Change event 
> (there is no MouseUp event on a right-click).
> 
> Both methods of pasting can be caught like so:
> ' Gambas class file
> 
> Public bMouseRight As Boolean
> 
> Public Sub TextArea1_Change()
> 
>    If bMouseRight Then
>      Print "Mouse paste"
>    Endif
>    bMouseRight = False
> 
> End
> 
> Public Sub TextArea1_MouseDown()
> 
>    If Mouse.Right Then
>      bMouseRight = True
>    Else 'Perhaps user clicked to get rid of the right-click menu
>      bMouseRight = False
>    Endif
> 
> End
> 
> Public Sub TextArea1_KeyPress()
> 
>    If Key.Control And If Key.Code = Key["v"] Then Print "Key Paste"
> 
> End
> ~~~
> 
> Now as far as cleaning up _only_ the text that has been pasted, perhaps 
> you could also keep track of the Pos property in a separate variable so 
> that you know the position of the text cursor prior to the paste.
> 
> 
Thank you! That works good.
b