I'm working on a terminal app based on Xterm.js which runs in UWP WebView. Everything works OK, and I'm able to paste any text to the terminal by using Ctrl+V - it looks that it is handled automatically by Xterm.js.
But I cannot implement "Paste" menu option. I've tried to do something like:
var value = await _webView.InvokeScriptAsync("eval", new []{"document.execCommand('paste')"});
(according to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/execCommand) but no luck. Nothing get pasted, and the call returns empty string.
Any ideas how to implement paste from UWP app menu? Thanks!
This is not a problem with WebView because I found it from the github issue at xterm.js.
You can consider publishing a Terminal object, such as attaching it to the window object so that it can be publicly accessed from outside, then use _webView.InvokeScriptAsync("eval",new string[] { "window.term.paste("some string") "});to paste.
If you don't want to expose the terminal object, you can wrap the paste method as a public function and then call it through InvokeScriptAsync.
Best regards.