The Windows clipboard is a general storage area that you can use to exchange data between Windows applications.

The exchange of data is usually user-controlled and initiated from functions in the application such as cut, paste, and copy. ESL allows you to copy textual information to and retrieve it from the clipboard. You should use the clipboard to implement textual functions such as cut, paste, and copy for the user.

copy to clipboard Statement

You can copy any ESL string value to the clipboard. After the copy is executed, any textual data that previously existed in the clipboard is entirely replaced by the string value.

Note that you cannot append a string to the clipboard.

clipboard Function

Use the built-in function clipboard to access the textual data in the clipboard.

You can use the clipboard built-in function anywhere a string value is allowed in ESL. It returns the entire textual contents of the clipboard.

Example

# Copy clipboard contents to a textual region. 

add to PasteRegion

 insert clipboard