Can I GET data FROM the clipboard with the new ZeroClipboard?

Question

I'm using this fresh version of ZeroClipboard in a project:

https://github.com/jonrohan/ZeroClipboard

Creating buttons to copy content from HTML really works like a breeze (compared to zClip or the "old" ZeroClipboard).

However I would now like to create a button which gets the current value in the clipboard and inserts it into a input field (i.e. "Click to Paste").

Unfortunately I can't find anything on that topic (getting the data from the clipboard that is - setting the value of the input ain't the issue). I'm not even sure if there is another solution other than using ZeroClipboard.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

    <script type="text/javascript">
        function getClicpboardData(Event){

            alert(window.clipboardData.getData('Text')); //if IE

            // alert(Event.clipboardData.getData('text/plain')); 


        }
    </script>
    <input type="submit" value="pasteClipboardData" onclick="getClicpboardData(event)">

Answer 2

You can open your local file://-based page and paste the JSON object returned by calling ZeroClipboard.state(); from the browser dev console.

One can also try but may no longer be necessary: https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/438#issuecomment-45977023

Hope this helps!

Source: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/3786729-cannot-use-zeroclipboard-over-file-protocol