After posting automatically copy to clipboard

Oh no! I just finished writting that long long post and the page didn't load.
I wish I would have made a copy in notepad. Too late for that.
I won't write it again.

After hearing that a couple hundred times I wrote this hack. When using Internet Explorer once you submit your post it is copied to the clipboard, meaning that if the page doesn't load then you just press back in your browser, paste, and submit it again. Since most of us users forget to do a backup copy just in case this comes in handy.

(screenshots?) I don't know how I would take screenshots for that.

for IE, only for WYSIWYG

Info for hackers:
You may modify, improve, upgrade, redistribute this hack, include it
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[Merjawy]

Very nice.. I will use it after upgrade..

Thanks for the hack mate

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

I think I got it working for the standard editor:

In vbulletin_stdedit.js FIND

PHP Code:

function validatePost(tform, subjectVal, minLength, maxLength)
{
    return validatemessage(tform.message.value, subjectVal, minLength, maxLength, false, tform);
} 


REPLACE that with

function validatePost(tform, subjectVal, minLength, maxLength)
{
	postOK = validatemessage(tform.message.value, subjectVal, minLength, maxLength, false, tform);
if ((postOK == true) & is_ie) {
Copied = tform.message.createTextRange();
Copied.execCommand("Copy");
}
return postOK;
}

This might bemoce a very useful feature for poor IE users

Do we need to edit any templates along with this?

[Andreas]

There are no template edits necessary for the standard editor.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

There are no template edits necessary for the standard editor.

Thank you, sir.

[mtha]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

There are no template edits necessary for the standard editor.

would be nice having no template editing for WYSIWYG one too, can we do it?

[high] * mtha installed[/high]

[Erwin]

Sweet idea! I will be adding this.

[ragintajin]

Does this work for previewing posts as well?

[The Realist]

What do you use to edit these .js files with?

[Andreas]

@ragintajin
It should also work for preview

@The Realist
Any editor you want, for example Notepad (bad choice )

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by ragintajin

Does this work for previewing posts as well?

if you preview it, you send it, and yes, the post get copied.

You can edit the js with your favorite text editor. I use notepad but sometimes the newlines don't appear correctly so I go with wordpad. Any enhanced editor (editpro, editplus, dreamweaver, etc) should do the work also.