Been working on this for a few hours without much progress. I think I'll abandon it if I can't get it working in a few more. So with that, here's what I got so far...
I found a snippet of Javascript that ostensibly copies the content of a textarea to the client machine clipboard. Assuming that it works, that is the functionality that I'm after here.
So, at the top of my script I have this code:
<script language=vortex>
<a name=main PUBLIC>
<urlcp $javascript 1>
...
</a>
...
I've left out a bunch of code that gets the user eventually to the page with the textarea on it. (See below.) Next in the file is the Javascript that I'm trying to run on click of the "Copy to Clipboard" button, as follows:
<a name=ClipboardCopy PUBLIC>
<verb NOESC>
<script language='Javascript'>
function docopy(d) {
var doc = eval("document.showFilter."+d);
cp = doc.createTextRange();
doc.focus();
doc.select();
cp.execCommand("Copy");
}
</script>
</verb>
</a>
...
Finally, there is the procedure that contains the form that contains the button, as follows:
<a name="Edit Filter" PUBLIC>
...
<form name="showFilter" method="post" action="$url">
<textarea name="filterText"
cols="60"
rows="6"
wrap="soft">$ret
</textarea><br>
<input onclick="docopy('filterText')"
type="button"
value="Copy to Clipboard">
</form>
...
</a>
...
</script> <!-- This is at the end of the file -->
The form with the textarea builds fine (note that the $ret that's pasted in the textarea in the above snippet is the return from a function that's irrelevant to this discussion), and the "Copy to Clipboard" button is there to be clicked. When I click it, however, the status message on the browser window reports: "Error on page" and nothing is copied to the clipboard.
One admittedly naive question I have (aside from how on earth do I get this to work?!?) is When, if at all, do I use/invoke the name of the vortex procedure ClipboardCopy that contains the Javascript procedure docopy()? Do I ever have to refer to that procedure by name? If so, where? (Obviously, I'm a neophyte at Javascript!)
My browser is IE, as I understand that this will not work on Firefox. My Texis version is Commercial Version 5.00.1090358162 20040720 (i686-unknown-linux2.4.2-64-32)
Thanks again for any help anyone can provide.
