>>I'm trying to execute Windows' cut and paste features programmatically in the Click even of a toolbar button. Using the following code:
>> SYS(1500, "_MED_CUT", "_MSYSMENU")
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>>Doesn't seem to quick 'cut' it. Any ideas?
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>Do you actually have the Edit pad on the system menu for your app?
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>Can you just manipulate the .activecontrol and the _cliptext variable yourself? After all, a button in a toolbar does NOT get focus, so _screen.activeform.activecontrol is still the one on the form where the user was working.
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>IN the Revolutionary Guide to Visual FoxPro OOP (Wrox Press) there is a great example of writing cut, copy and paste.

You can try this:

_cliptext = sourcevalue

target = _cliptext