How do we access the clipboard on mobile devices?

[jonathandlynch at gmail.com]

I really want to have the same forms for every platform, not have to generate 40 different fields on the fly and manage all of that.

I might try converting my forms into HTML forms and using the browser widget. I hate that because I invested so much time into the forms I have created, but not being able to paste text on a tablet kinda stinks.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 25, 2017, at 11:46 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> 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
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>>> 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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