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Clipboard Copying
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We need to be able to copy grids' cell/row contents to the clipboard. Am I correct in my assumption that this behavior is not supported by default? Ctrl+C on a cell/row does not do anything and I am unable to highlight the actual text in a cell in order to copy it.

We have somewhat of a workaround by using a javascript event handler for document.onkeyup/down, trapping the ctrl+c combination, and then looping through selected rows/cols/cells. Unfortunately, this breaks support for shortcut copying elsewhere on the entire page. I could probably make it so it only traps the ctrl+c combination if there are activated/selected cells/rows, but that would only fix copying elsewhere prior to selecting something. I also thought about only trapping the ctrl+c combination if the grid was focused, but I was unable to determine that (I tried attaching handlers to focus/blur to set a boolean but could not get the events to be raised).

Is there a better way to accomplish this?