Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be doing copy to clipboard text using textctrl widget and pasting it in another panel using listctrl widget in gui desktop app in python. All the full source code of the application is given below.
Get Started
In order to get started you need to install the below library using the pip command as shown below
pip install wxpython
After installing this library you need to make an app.py file and copy paste the following code
app.py
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import wx t1_text = """\ The whole contents of this control will be placed in the system's clipboard when you click the copy button below. """ t2_text = """\ If the clipboard contains a text data object then it will be placed in this control when you click the paste button below. Try copying to and pasting from other applications too! """ class MyFrame(wx.Frame): def __init__(self): wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, title="Clipboard", size=(500,300)) p = wx.Panel(self) # create the controls self.t1 = wx.TextCtrl(p, -1, t1_text, style=wx.TE_MULTILINE|wx.HSCROLL) self.t2 = wx.TextCtrl(p, -1, t2_text, style=wx.TE_MULTILINE|wx.HSCROLL) copy = wx.Button(p, -1, "Copy") paste = wx.Button(p, -1, "Paste") # setup the layout with sizers fgs = wx.FlexGridSizer(2, 2, 5, 5) fgs.AddGrowableRow(0) fgs.AddGrowableCol(0) fgs.AddGrowableCol(1) fgs.Add(self.t1, 0, wx.EXPAND) fgs.Add(self.t2, 0, wx.EXPAND) fgs.Add(copy, 0, wx.EXPAND) fgs.Add(paste, 0, wx.EXPAND) border = wx.BoxSizer() border.Add(fgs, 1, wx.EXPAND|wx.ALL, 5) p.SetSizer(border) # Bind events self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnDoCopy, copy) self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnDoPaste, paste) def OnDoCopy(self, evt): data = wx.TextDataObject() data.SetText(self.t1.GetValue()) if wx.TheClipboard.Open(): wx.TheClipboard.SetData(data) wx.TheClipboard.Close() else: wx.MessageBox("Unable to open the clipboard", "Error") def OnDoPaste(self, evt): success = False data = wx.TextDataObject() if wx.TheClipboard.Open(): success = wx.TheClipboard.GetData(data) wx.TheClipboard.Close() if success: self.t2.SetValue(data.GetText()) else: wx.MessageBox( "There is no data in the clipboard in the required format", "Error") app = wx.PySimpleApp() frm = MyFrame() frm.Show() app.MainLoop() |
If you execute the above python script by typing the below command
python app.py
