Clipboard

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import BrowserWindow from "modules/common/lib/BrowserWindow";

const Clipboard = {
    copyToClipboard: (text) => {
        const browseWin = BrowserWindow.get();
        const browserDoc = browseWin.document;

        // IE specific
        if (browseWin.clipboardData && browseWin.clipboardData.setData) {
            browseWin.clipboardData.setData("Text", text);
            return true;
        }

        // all other modern
        const scrollY = browseWin.scrollY;
        let target = browserDoc.createElement("textarea");
        target.style.position = "absolute";
        target.style.left = "-9999px";
        target.style.top = 0;
        target.textContent = text;
        browserDoc.body.appendChild(target);
        target.focus();
        target.setSelectionRange(0, target.value.length);

        browseWin.scrollTo(0, scrollY);

        // copy the selection of fall back to prompt
        try {
            browserDoc.execCommand("copy");
            target.remove();
            return true;
        } catch(e) {
            target.remove();
            return false;
        }
    }
}

export default Clipboard;