Alert from which you can copy data

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Hi,

I have a web application, written on asp.net, in which I'd like to add a confirm dialog box from which I'll be able to copy some of the data, same way when you have those Windows exceptions (those "Send" \ "Don't Send" alerts) where you can open the details and you can copy the details from there.

The dialog box should not be necessarily with this "More Details" button, I just should be able to copy some of the data from the dialog and not be able to edit it.

Thanks

Posted 9-Jul-12 23:20pm

DanaH85

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pradiprenushe 10-Jul-12 5:27am

Are you talking about Prompt Box?

DanaH85 10-Jul-12 5:30am

It can be, if I can disable the textbox for editing...
It supposed to notify you that there are a list of items and write all of them down in a textbox so the user can copy the list.

Then the user get to choose whether to confirm or cancel the action

pradiprenushe 10-Jul-12 5:34am

I think you should use Ajax ModalPopup Control.

DanaH85 10-Jul-12 5:40am

There's no way I can avoid Ajax?

pradiprenushe 10-Jul-12 6:05am

I think you dont need popup value. While you are sending value to popup you can save it & use it later accordingly. Can you elaborate some more with actual example.( What are you using, when popup comes, how you are going to send data in popup)

DanaH85 10-Jul-12 7:07am

I'll give you an example:
Say you have an application which organize users' pictures.
You have Users management (you should register first), and after you register, you can add your picture and organize them in folder etc.

Now say one user has a folder called "Party" in which there are several pictures, and he chooses to delete the folder. I want that as he click the Delete button, he'll have a confirm message in which the alert itself is "Folder has some pictures in it. Are you sure you want to delete?"
under this text there will be some sort of text box in which all of the pictures' names in that folder appears (the textbox is uneditable, so the user can't change pictures names, delete picture name or add a picture name)
Then the user can press OK (and the folder and pictures are deleted) or Cancel(and then nothing is deleted)

pradiprenushe 10-Jul-12 7:40am

Dont add confirm box in design page. Add it through coed behind.

Add delete message in strMessage.
Get filnames ferom database add it in strMessage.
deletebutton.Attributes.Add("onclick", "return confirm('"+ strMessage + "');");
here strmessage should be html format to style your message.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Jul-12 14:11pm

Good idea. The implementation could be pretty simple, and it does need Ajax, if you want to develop a system used to submit issue information to the side (which I advise to do instead of just using the Copy). (I voted "4" for the question.)
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-07-10T08:19:00

For a way of presenting the message, I would recommend jQuery modal box. Please see this tutorial:
http://www.jacklmoore.com/notes/jquery-modal-tutorial[^].

As all presented data is known to your modal object, you can collect it and use to submit the issue information using Ajax. For this purpose, you can add a button like "Submit Issue Information" or something like that. You can use jQuery Ajax method(s) for this purpose:
http://api.jquery.com/category/ajax/[^].

If you can write data to the client's clipboard, you can easily find appropriate plug-in code. Such as those:
http://www.steamdev.com/zclip/[^],
http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/clipboard[^].

This article provides some overview on using the client's clipboard:
http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/06/javascript-copy-to-clipboard.html[^].

—SA

bbirajdar · Answer 2 · 2012-07-10T08:25:00

Solution 2

Press Ctrl + A . The message in the alert/confirm box will be copied to clipboard ( but will not be seen 'selected' on the confirm/alert box).

Then open notepad or any text editing application and press Ctrl + V.

If you don't believe this trick , then try it yourself first..

Posted 10-Jul-12 8:25am

bbirajdar

Updated 10-Jul-12 22:36pm

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