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    CStatic - disable double click copy to clipboard.

    Hi all,

    by default double-clicking on the label (CStatic) control, you copy the text of the label to the clipboard. To disable this functionality I followed this site. The problem is, that I want to preserve the previous value of the clipboard. Based on MSDN documentation the WM_GETTEXT should return the text length without null character. I do so, but my code still not working, which means that the clipboard is empty.

    Code:
            LRESULT WindowProc(UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) override
            {
                if (message == WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK)
                {
                    double_click_flag_ = true;
                }
                if (message == WM_GETTEXT && double_click_flag_ && !double_click_copy_)
                {
                    double_click_flag_ = false;
    
                    HANDLE clip = nullptr;
                    if (OpenClipboard()) {
                        clip = GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT);
                        CloseClipboard();
                    }
                    string text;
                    text = (char*)clip;
                    std::wstring wsTmp(text.begin(), text.end());
                    return wsTmp.length();
                }
                return CStatic::WindowProc(message, wParam, lParam);
            }
    Any idea?

    Thx
    Last edited by Tony.star21; March 25th, 2022 at 10:25 AM.

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    Re: CStatic - disable double click copy to clipboard.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tony.star21 View Post
    Hi all,

    by default double-clicking on the label (CStatic) control, you copy the text of the label to the clipboard. ...
    I never heard about such a feature. In my quick tests it (double-clicking on the label (CStatic) control causes the label text being copied to the Clipboard) does not work.
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    Re: CStatic - disable double click copy to clipboard.

    clip is a handle - not a pointer to data. Once you have the handle then you need to obtain a memory pointer from it. For this use GlobalLock(clip). The return value is a pointer to the data. If not nulllptr then the data can be copied.

    Note that once the data has been copied then you use GlobalUnlock() and then CloseClipBoard(). Don't close if no error before the data has been copied.

    See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...-the-clipboard for an example.
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    Re: CStatic - disable double click copy to clipboard.

    Quote Originally Posted by 2kaud View Post
    clip is a handle - not a pointer to data. Once you have the handle then you need to obtain a memory pointer from it. or this use GlobalLock(clip). The return value is a pointer to the data. If not nulllptr then the data can be copied.

    Note that once the data has been copied then you use GlobalUnlock() and then CloseClipBoard(). Don't close if no error before the data has been copied.

    See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...-the-clipboard for an example.


    Well, I may not use the clip the correct way but I successfully get the string so the string length is correct. The question is why this is not enough and the clipboard is empty.

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    Re: CStatic - disable double click copy to clipboard.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tony.star21 View Post
    Well, I may not use the clip the correct way but I successfully get the string so the string length is correct. The question is why this is not enough and the clipboard is empty.
    I guess it's because nothing has been placed on the clipboard (at least in the CF_TEXT format).
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    Re: CStatic - disable double click copy to clipboard.

    Can someone send here a working example? I still have not figured it out. :/ Shouldn't be that hard. The problem is that something destroys the actual clipboard calling EmptyClipboard() so I receive WM_DESTROYCLIPBOARD msg.

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    Re: CStatic - disable double click copy to clipboard.

    Quote Originally Posted by VictorN View Post
    I guess it's because nothing has been placed on the clipboard (at least in the CF_TEXT format).
    Not true. I feel like you do not get the point here. When you double click on the label (since vista and SS_NOTIFY style is set) you get the text of the label to the clipboard. In my custom subclassed label I want to create a flag with which you are able to turn on/off this feature (double_click_copy_). The scenario I want to achieve is the following: The user has "cool text" in the clipboard (let's say he hit ctrl+c in the document). Now he accidentally or for some reason double click on the label. The result I want to have is to preserve the "cool text" in the clipboard. With my piece of code, I can catch WM_GetTExt msg and return whatever. But the result is that the clipboard lose its original content and became empty. So back to your "guess" the clipboard in my case is not empty because in the time of getting the WM_GETTEXT msg I am able the get the original content of the clipboard. But I do not know how to preserve it.

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    Re: CStatic - disable double click copy to clipboard.

    I've never heard of double clicking copying text to the clipboard either, but could you just turn off the SS_NOTIFY style?

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    Re: CStatic - disable double click copy to clipboard.

    Quote Originally Posted by GCDEF View Post
    I've never heard of double-clicking copying text to the clipboard either, but could you just turn off the SS_NOTIFY style?
    Sure, that is possible but then I get no WM_LBUTTONDBCLICK msg at all and this is not an ideal solution for me.

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    Re: CStatic - disable double click copy to clipboard.

    How about if it's a WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK return 0 instead of calling the base WindowProc, or set up a message handler in your class that ignores the WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK?

    The problem is likely that you're still calling the base WindowProc, so it's going to do whatever it does after you do your processing

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    Re: CStatic - disable double click copy to clipboard.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tony.star21 View Post
    Not true. I feel like you do not get the point here. When you double click on the label (since vista and SS_NOTIFY style is set)
    Well you didn't mention about SS_NOTIFY style in your OP!

    OK, there is an MFC class (this Forum is for Visual C++ /MFC related problems) derived from CStatic that can prevent copying the control label text to the clipboard:
    Code:
    // NotifyStatic.h
    #pragma once
    
    class CNotifyStatic : public CStatic
    {
    	DECLARE_DYNAMIC(CNotifyStatic)
    
    public:
    	CNotifyStatic();
    
    protected:
    	afx_msg void OnLButtonDblClk(UINT nFlags, CPoint point);
    	afx_msg LRESULT OnGettext(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);
    	DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
    
    protected:
    	bool doubleClicked;
    	CString clipboardText;
    	CString label;
    };
    
    // NotifyStatic.cpp : implementation file
    //
    
    #include "pch.h"
    #include "resource.h"
    #include "NotifyStatic.h"
    
    IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CNotifyStatic, CStatic)
    
    CNotifyStatic::CNotifyStatic()
    {
    	doubleClicked = false;
    }
    
    BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CNotifyStatic, CStatic)
    	ON_WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK()
    	ON_MESSAGE(WM_GETTEXT, &CNotifyStatic::OnGettext)
    END_MESSAGE_MAP()
    
    void CNotifyStatic::OnLButtonDblClk(UINT nFlags, CPoint point)
    {
    	HANDLE clip = nullptr;
    	if (::OpenClipboard(m_hWnd))
    	{
    		clip = ::GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT);
    		::CloseClipboard();
    	}
    	if (clip != nullptr)
    	{
    		void* text = ::GlobalLock(clip);
    		if (text != nullptr)
    		{
    			// save previous clipboard data in a CString member variable
    			if (::IsClipboardFormatAvailable(CF_TEXT))
    			{
    				clipboardText = (char*)text;
    			}
    			else if (::IsClipboardFormatAvailable(CF_UNICODETEXT))
    			{
    				clipboardText = (wchar_t*)text;
    			}
    			::GlobalUnlock(clip);
    		}
    	}
    	doubleClicked = true;
    	// delete the next line if you want to prevent copying control label to the (or just the emptying) clipboard
    	CStatic::OnLButtonDblClk(nFlags, point);
    }
    
    afx_msg LRESULT CNotifyStatic::OnGettext(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
    {
    	if (doubleClicked)
    	{
    		doubleClicked = false;
    		// return zero to prevent setting the text to the clipboard
    		return 0;
    	}
    	// do the default processing
    	return DefWindowProc(WM_GETTEXT, wParam, lParam);
    }
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    Re: CStatic - disable double click copy to clipboard.

    Hey,

    i am not sure on this, after reading this, i had the same doubt, lol.

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