Clipboard (Angular)

The FlexGrid supports the clipboard by default. Pressing ctrl+C copies the current selection to the clipboard, and ctrl+V pastes the clipboard content at the current cursor position.

You can disable the automatic clipboard by setting the autoClipboard property to false.

You can use the copyHeaders property to determined whether clip strings should include the content of the header cells. This is especially useful in read-only grids, because the header information typically should not be included when pasting data into the grid.

Try to copy a range from the FlexGrid and paste into Notepad or into an Excel sheet.

Learn about FlexGrid | Clipboard Documentation | Clipboard API Reference

This example uses Angular.

import 'bootstrap.css'; import '@mescius/wijmo.styles/wijmo.css'; import './styles.css'; import '@angular/compiler'; import { Component, enableProdMode, NgModule } from '@angular/core'; import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic'; import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'; import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms'; import { WjGridModule } from '@mescius/wijmo.angular2.grid'; import { Clipboard } from '@mescius/wijmo'; import { getData } from './app.data'; @Component({ selector: 'app-component', templateUrl: 'src/app.component.html' }) export class AppComponent { data = getData(); includeHeaders = true; hasHeaders = false; // copying with or without headers copying(s: any, e: any) { this.hasHeaders = this.includeHeaders; if (this.hasHeaders) { // copy text with headers and copyright notice to clipboard let text = s.getClipString(null, false, true, false); text = text + '\r\n(c) 2019 MESCIUS inc'; // put text with headers on the clipboard Clipboard.copy(text); // prevent the grid from overwriting our clipboard content e.cancel = true; } } // prevent pasting content with headers... pasting(s: any, e: any) { if (this.hasHeaders) { e.cancel = true; } } } @NgModule({ imports: [WjGridModule, BrowserModule, FormsModule], declarations: [AppComponent], bootstrap: [AppComponent] }) export class AppModule { } enableProdMode(); // Bootstrap application with hash style navigation and global services. platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <title>MESCIUS Wijmo Clipboard</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <!-- Polyfills --> <script src="node_modules/core-js/client/shim.min.js"></script> <script src="node_modules/zone.js/fesm2015/zone.min.js"></script> <!-- SystemJS --> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.21.5/system.src.js" integrity="sha512-skZbMyvYdNoZfLmiGn5ii6KmklM82rYX2uWctBhzaXPxJgiv4XBwJnFGr5k8s+6tE1pcR1nuTKghozJHyzMcoA==" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script> <script> // workaround to load 'rxjs/operators' from the rxjs bundle System.import('rxjs').then(function (m) { System.set(SystemJS.resolveSync('rxjs/operators'), System.newModule(m.operators)); System.import('./src/app.component'); }); </script> </head> <body> <app-component></app-component> </body> </html>
<div class="container-fluid"> <label> Include Headers <input type="checkbox" [(ngModel)]="includeHeaders"> </label> <wj-flex-grid #grid [itemsSource]="data" (copying)="copying(grid, $event)" (pasting)="pasting(grid, $event)"> </wj-flex-grid> </div>
// create some random data export function getData() { let countries = ['US', 'Germany', 'UK', 'Japan', 'Italy', 'Greece'], data = []; for (let i = 0; i < countries.length; i++) { data.push({ id: i, country: countries[i], downloads: Math.round(Math.random() * 20000), sales: Math.random() * 10000, expenses: Math.random() * 5000 }); } return data; }
.wj-flexgrid { max-height: 350px; }
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