add a local file to clipboard

Classic Servoy
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Hi guys,
In my application I manage documents. These are stored in a directory on the Servoy server. In my application, I show which documents are available for an operation. Now the user wants to do the following: The displayed documents should be dragged from the smartclient-application to another application (if possible by drag-drop). Of course I show in the smart client no documents, but only entries in the application.

Is there any ideas how I could make that?

Is there a way to copy a local file to the clipboard so that the file can be inserted again (eg in Outlook) with CTRL+V?
I have a solution which is not so elegant: I have created with Foxpro an EXE, which I can pass the files as parameters. This Foxpro application passes the files to the clipboard.

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Servoy offers basic functionality to handle clipboard content, like this:

application.setClipboardContent('some_content');

With this you could also get content of a file, but would not be very suitable other than some text within that file. Java offers functionality to copy a full file to the clipboard, but then you would have to investigate Java APIs which you can use directly inside Servoy code. Perhaps you can have a look at this page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1102 … rd-in-java

If you would have this working, then in Servoy you could use it together with the existing drag and drop functionality to make this work.