Creating Cut, Copy, and Paste Features in a Editor

Hey guys,

I am creating an editor of my own for a VB project. I have been able to implement New, Open and Exit commands successfully. But I am stuck with Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete features of the Implementation.
Do you guys have an suggestions on how to implement the cut, copy, paste, and delete actions(Even the logic aspect will be sufficient)? Thank you in advance.


Manoj

Hi sweetsupra,

Look into using the Clipboard object. That's where I would start.

All the best.

OneSource is correct, the best way to do this is with the Clipboard. Here's the code (unabashedly stolen from a textbook by Diane Zak, "Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic X.0" (X.0 = 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 etc.) - great book for beginners, btw).
The following code assumes that you have a menu item named "mnuEdit" with sub-items named "mnuCopy", "mnuCut", "mnuPaste", and "mnuDelete", and that your textbox is called txtEdit:

Code:

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Private Sub mnuEdit_Click()
    ' enable/disable copy and cut commands, depending
    ' on whether any text is selected ...
    If txtEdit.SelText = "" Then
        mnuCut.Enabled = False
        mnuCopy.Enabled = False
    Else
        mnuCut.Enabled = True
        mnuCopy.Enabled = True
    End If
    ' enable/disable Paste command, depending on
    ' whether or not any text is in the Clipboard ...
    If Clipboard.GetText() = "" Then
      mnuPaste.Enabled = False
    Else
      mnuPaste.Enabled = True
    End If

End Sub

Private Sub mnuCopy_Click()
    Clipboard.Clear
    Clipboard.SetText txtEdit.SelText
End Sub

Private Sub mnuCut_Click()
    Clipboard.Clear
    Clipboard.SetText txtEdit.SelText
    txtEdit.SelText = ""
End Sub

Private Sub mnuPaste_Click()
    txtEdit.SelText Clipboard.GetText()
End Sub

Private Sub mnuDelete_Click()
    txtEdit.SelText = ""
End Sub

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Try the Visual Basic Application Wizard first.I learnt a lot of things from it. File->New Project. then VB Application Wizard.