By default, firefox doesn't allow JavaScript to read or set your clipboard data for security and privacy reasons. When Cute Editor detect clipboard access is disabled, the alert window will show.

 

To enable these functions , you must modify your browser preferences.

 

 

Please check the following articles:

 

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Granting+JavaScript+access+to+the+clipboard

 

Hope it helps.

I suppose this becomes a question of why would someone use ctrl+c and ctrl+v anyways through buttons, but wouldn't the optimal solution instead be to copy the selection, store it, check for the key combo of ctrl+v or if they hit the paste button, and remove it from your data store if you detect they ctrl+c/ctrl+x something else?

 

Personally, I could write something like that pretty easily as there is a lot of code out there already for that, http://tinyurl.com/dcr3ka

GWax,

Firefox has a security feature that prevents applications such as the HTML Editor buttons from accessing the clipboard. You can still use the keyboard shortcuts to copy, cut, and paste. There is also an article on the mozillaZine website about Granting JavaScript access to the clipboard.

I am not talking about accessing the clipboard. I am talking about accessing the selection object, which you have 100% access too.

 

Here is some pseudo-code for you

 

Bind key event

-Check if ctrl+c

   -If so copy from selection/range object and overwrite in temp location

-Check if ctrl+v

   -If so paste into current selection area

 

-Check for copy button pressed

   -If so copy from selection/range object and overwrite in temp location

-Check if paste button pressed

 

 

They can do it: http://code.google.com/p/js-hotkeys/ and I can do it or you can do this http://yangshuai.googlepages.com/jquerycopyplugin and another one http://code.google.com/p/zeroclipboard/

GWax ,

 

When we work on version 6.3, we want to use Flash solution for this issue.

 

However we found out it didn't work for Flash 10.

 

We decide not using this flash for the firefox copy function.

Regards,
Terry

 

I still presented alternatives that don't require Flash and there is one that works with Flash 10. You might want to go do some more research. Cutesoft is proving themselves not that capable when one of them says right there, "This library is fully compatible with Flash Player 10, which requires that the clipboard copy operation be initiated by a user click event inside the Flash movie. This is achieved by automatically floating the invisible movie on top of a DOM element of your choice. Standard mouse events are even propagated out to your DOM element, so you can still have rollover and mouse down effects."

 

Do you have any excuse now?