How do we access the clipboard on mobile devices?

[J. Landman Gay]

They can paste text normally if you use a native field. The only 
restriction is that LC can't manage the clipboard through script alone. But 
if you create a mobile field the OS handles it as expected.

In other words, copy and paste is currently limited to manual user actions.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



On June 25, 2017 11:07:08 AM Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I was very surprised it wasn't. I plan to submit Augmented Earth to the 
> apple App Store today. I am going to be embarrassed to tell users they 
> cannot paste text into their reports on a mobile device.
>
> I think I will try to find a workaround between version 1 and version 1.1
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jun 25, 2017, at 10:28 AM, hlowe via use-livecode 
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> iOS native text fields (and I presume other native mobile text fields)
>> support manual copy and paste actions - the user has to manually select the
>> text and then initiate the action. I don't know of any way to
>> programatically copy and paste to/from the iOS clipboard nor to access the
>> data on the clipboard. Perhaps I am missing something?
>>
>> In Objective C this appears to be relatively straight forward:
>>
>> UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
>> pasteboard.string = @"some text to be pasted";
>>
>> Is there is a reason why basic mobile clipboard support was never
>> implemented in LiveCode?
>>
>> It would be very nice to be able to get and set the rawClipboardData on
>> mobile but that is only possible on the desktop.
>>
>> Henry
>>
>>
>>
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