You can monitor copy/paste by attaching event listeners to menu items of "Copy" and "Paste" commands.

Something like this:

#targetengine "tomaxxiTEST"
 
( function () {
    
    main ();
    
    function main () {
        var
            beforeCopy = app.menuActions.itemByID ( 270 ).addEventListener ( "beforeInvoke", eventHandler ), // COPY
            afterCopy = app.menuActions.itemByID ( 270 ).addEventListener ( "afterInvoke", eventHandler ), // COPY
 
            beforeCut = app.menuActions.itemByID ( 269 ).addEventListener ( "beforeInvoke", eventHandler ), // CUT
            afterCut = app.menuActions.itemByID ( 269 ).addEventListener ( "afterInvoke", eventHandler ), // CUT
 
            beforeClear = app.menuActions.itemByID ( 272 ).addEventListener ( "beforeInvoke", eventHandler ), // CLEAR
            afterClear = app.menuActions.itemByID ( 272 ).addEventListener ( "afterInvoke", eventHandler ), // CLEAR
 
            beforePaste = app.menuActions.itemByID ( 271 ).addEventListener ( "beforeInvoke", eventHandler ), // PASTE
            afterPaste = app.menuActions.itemByID ( 271 ).addEventListener ( "afterInvoke", eventHandler ), // PASTE
 
            beforePasteInPlace = app.menuActions.itemByID ( 273 ).addEventListener ( "beforeInvoke", eventHandler ), // PASTE IN PLACE
            afterPasteInPlace = app.menuActions.itemByID ( 273 ).addEventListener ( "afterInvoke", eventHandler ), // PASTE IN PLACE
 
            beforePasteInto = app.menuActions.itemByID ( 274 ).addEventListener ( "beforeInvoke", eventHandler ), // PASTE INTO
            afterPasteInto = app.menuActions.itemByID ( 274 ).addEventListener ( "afterInvoke", eventHandler ); // PASTE INTO
    }
    
    function eventHandler ( evt ) {
        alert ( evt.eventType + " | " + evt.currentTarget.name );
    }
 
} ) ();

Hope that helps.

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Marijan (tomaxxi)

http://tomaxxi.com

I know this is an older post, but where can I find the id's of the menu actions? Is there a list of them somewhere?

Thanks!

Thank you! that did indeed get the job done.