>>>what about the Edit option on the system menu bar? can you not take advantage of the cut/copy/paste functionality of it in your app? or do you totally replace the system menu bar with your own?
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>>Mark, I'm already using the edit option in my app's menu, with cut-copy-paste-clear options in it, I even created a right click shortcut menu with these options as well; the thing is that my client REALLY (??) wishes to see those buttons in the form when the editing mode is activated (I use an activate-deactivate feature on the grid), so that's why I need some routine that reads selected text, copies it to the clipboard, blah, blah...
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>>Thanks,
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>Assuming that edit menu is available, could you add commandbutton with one line in Click event, e.g.:
>keyboard '{CTRL+C}'

ButtonCopy.ClicK()

_CLIPTEXT=MyText


PasteButton.Click()

MyText = _CLIPTEXT

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_CLIPTEXT is the variable to get or set text in the clipboard under VFP...


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