Prism toolbar

[vdecree]

Hi there,

Does prism still use prism toolbar plugin so that you can easily get the 'copy to clipboard' button to appear? I've been trying but it doesn't seem to work.

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[LeaVerou]

There never was such a plugin. I only remember some pull requests. Any more info?

[geoffreymcgill]

The following Copy to Clipboard sample should be helpful to anyone wanting to implement this functionality within their Prism code sample.

https://gist.github.com/geoffreymcgill/d118939d1d358d2ed5e8

This sample is adapted from a sample originally posted by Philip Lawrence.

Hope this helps.

[vkbansal]

@geoffreymcgill Thanks for the link! I was working on something similar.

@LeaVerou Will it make sense to have a plugin that depends on third party tools in the official repo?

[LeaVerou]

Sure, that’s what plugins are for. (of course it’s always better to not depend on 3rd party tools, but we’re not going to reinvent the wheel for no reason — we reinvent the wheel only when it results in shorter/more elegant/otherwise better code :) ).

[mAAdhaTTah]

I'm definitely in need of that, @vkbansal; was going to look at tackling it myself but probably not for a while.

[vkbansal]

@mAAdhaTTah can you tell what features are commonly required in a toolbar?

[mAAdhaTTah]

I mostly need "copy to clipboard," but leaving it open for hooking into would also be great, as I also will need to add an edit button that will take you to the backend (if possible).

[LeaVerou]

Is this still only solvable with Flash or does the Clipboard API support this now?

[Golmote]

AFAIK, still only Flash. And ZeroClipboard (used in the above example) is the reference for this.

EDIT: This is what Github uses, for example.

[santo007]

@Golmote @mAAdhaTTah @vkbansal
Get the plugin from the public repository i have created Prism-toolbar

[vkbansal]

@santo007 nice!

[uranusjr]

For this particular use-case only copy to clipboard is needed, and surprisingly (at least to me) support for it seems pretty decent. It’s mostly only unsupported on mobile browsers, so maybe a Flash-free solution is reasonable?

[Golmote]

@uranusjr I'm still pretty sure we can't use it to make a "Copy to clipboard" button, but please show me I'm wrong.

[uranusjr]

Yes, you’re right, I misread the support description. Sorry for the mess-up.

[loganfranken]

While there is some discussion above of an extensive toolbar, it looks like this issue is mostly about the "Copy to Clipboard" feature: this is also discussed in #280.

I think this a cool feature to pursue, but maybe we should close either this issue or #280 to simplify things?